Vision Pro Teardown: Behind the Complex and Creepy Tech

Welcome to the Vision Pro, Apple’s most complex piece of hardware yet. So complicated that we’ll need more than one video to tackle it. In this video, we’ll walk you through the Vision Pro’s insane disassembly process, but make sure you’re subscribed to our channel as we’re already hard at work on our follow-up video, which is now live here

Chapters
00:00 iFixit’s Vision Pro Teardown
00:44 Removing the Vision Pro’s Power Cord, and Battery Specs
01:06 Removing the Vision Pro’s Solo Knit Band
01:12 Removing the Vision Pro’s Light Seal and Popping off the Speaker Stems
01:25 Opening the Vision Pro
01:58 Separating the Outer Display Layers
02:20 How the Lenticular Display Works in the Vision Pro
03:18 Removing the Vision Pro’s Fabric Mesh
03:24 Removing the Vision Pro’s Lenses and Displays
04:06 Removing the Vision Pro’s Outer Display
04:33 Removing the Vision Pro’s Camera Array
04:52 Remving the Vision Pro’s Logic Board
05:08 Removing the Vision Pro’s Fan
05:23 Removing the Vision Pro’s Lens Motor

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[avananana]

I like how polarized the comment section is. Half of it is praising Apple for how much they got in to the headset, and the other half is absolutely hammering them with how anti-consumer the method of construction is.

[MyRealDelusion]

WOW the amount of engineering never disappoints. 1 out of 10 for teardownability.

[MichaelBennett]

Most expensive tearddown yet? What a puzzle though, I’d imagine a repairability score of -10.

[Sonderax]

I'd argue this is the most impressive, complex piece of consumer hardware ever. Apple know how to make good looking interiors

[kortyzol]

"The real world is experienced through a slightly laggy, 2010s webcam."
Every single review i've seen of this thing said that the passthrough is amazing and almost lifelike. Am i missing something?

[reddcube]

I appreciate the engineers make it so easy to replace the battery, the head strap, and speaker temples.

[markusbecker]

Everybody sing along.
Screw, screw, screw. Bracket, bracket, screw. Connector 🎶 😅

[michaelmueller]

Apples Vision Pro engineers must get a heart attack watching this video 😁

[bridgecross]

iFixit: "weak pass through video"
Marques Brownlee: "greatest passthrough in the history of tech!"

[lou]

5:47 Nice to see the lightning plug has been reincarnated as a 12 pin battery connector for the VP. 😄

[kyotra]

First piece of tech I've seen where the insides _actually_ look like one of those science fiction renders. What a maze.

[JustAPersonWhoComments]

One of the few tech reviewers that can actually disassemble the Vision Pro

[farhan_hossain]

Proud to see them take apart the product I worked on for years. Designing the parts to fit a curved design was some of the most difficult things ever done by consumer electronics design engineers.

[Dominus_Potatus]

god... Apple's level of engineering is ... insane

[JTCF]

Honestly, I can't believe this is real. Insides look so pretty and tidy. Like a detailed game asset with lots of gribble but in this it all actually serves some purpose.
Quite cool.

[some______guy]

This tearfown feels a bit like how I felt when I visited Paris. Like you stand there and look at everything and just can't imagine that a human or humans built all this. That's what this feels like.

[RafiBarides]

I really felt that when you said “screw, screw, connector, connector x2, connector”

[PySnek]

Would have been nice to see all parts laid out at the end

[The_Horizon]

i love my flippy android phones as much as the other nerds, but apple always stuns me with the tech they manage to cram into their devices omg

[tiagomaqz]

Wow. That’s A LOT of tech packed in there. Now I understand the price better. Amazing engineering