Meta Quest 3 Teardown: What Are You Sacrificing for Savings?

The weight distribution is really important for the comfort of a VR headset, so it's not surprising that the battery is buried as close to the screen as possible.

Now that's how you make a great teardown video.

It's always fascinating to discover the inside of those devices. X-ray, clear close-up shots and microscope shots are amazing to look at !

The engineering of the Quest 3 is impressive to say the least. You get such an insane amount of value out of the box, and the amount of work that must have been done to fit so much technology into such a modestly priced headset is crazy to think about.

This is awesome, so much technology densely packed in such a tiny package

Looking at the Quest 3 disassembly video, it is not a mid-priced headset. This is a high-end product. Plus the price is good too.

Hate devices where it is pain to replace battery. Thank you for the teardown.

Thanks Ifixit for keeping big corporations honest when it comes to repairability.

I would rather illegally drive on the highway underage than dismantle my meta quest 3, put it back together and have the fear of it breaking 😭😭😭

I was wanting to see a teardown, but my interest was in how the memory is handled. If the 128gb board is just the 512gb board with fewer chips, or if they actually used different capacity chips with the same number of chips.

Put the depth sensor on QP to see if it works

Great, thanks! Really expected to see '6' at the end. Not so much of a glue there.

3:20 try sticking the sensor in the pro and sideloading the 3's firmware? I'm curious to see if the Pro can utilize it

Great teardown, though you should mention that the Quest Pro does have local dimming which gives it a leg up against the Quest 3's LCD panels.

Coming from a Quest Pro, I returned my Quest 3 after using for an hour. LCD panels took me back to Reverb G2 days of muted colors & no blacks compared to QPro. A bump in a resolution wasn’t significant enough to make the compromise. Vibrant colors on a Pro is hard to downgrade from. I did not care about other quest 3 features & primarily use it with PC connected via link cable.

Fantastic teardown! Looking forward to all of the additional guides and walkthrough's that come to be during Quest 3's lifecycle. Thank you!

It’s great that you used the video’s script for the captions, and even making captions at all puts you above the vast majority of creators! That said, it would be great if an editor took a pass at correcting them before publishing, as it can be confusing when the speaker deviates from the script. It’s not too bad for me since I can hear them, but for someone who’s hard of hearing it’s an accessibility issue. Like I said, having captions at all is more than most do, but a bit more attention to detail would be great.

4 out of 10? That's actually great for a compact VR device. I would take 50 screws over plastic latches or glue any day. And controllers alone are with great repairability and are robust as a brick (we all remember Index controllers reliability and fragileness).

Great tear down! While the battery is difficult to remove, I still believe it is worth relocating to the rear. I'm guessing it is ~85g, which is enough to justify the relocation. I think weight is the most important part of modern headsets. Assuming you have an upgraded head strap.

There should be a battery door so you could just slide out battery. They could sell spares so you could swap it if you don’t want to wait for a charge