The amount of engineering put into the quest 2 amazes me every time.

@colbzyk2128

Жыл бұрын

yeah, i cant wait for the quest 3 tear down vid

was wondering what it looked like under the hood, thanks!

@Castawot.

2 жыл бұрын

hello mr guru

@jej1.

2 жыл бұрын

wonder what phone repair guru's doing here

@avrstory

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, there's a lot going on under there.

@ThatOneMexicanDude

2 жыл бұрын

hi

@MrUnder30seconds

2 жыл бұрын

im not going to look because i dont want to hurt the magic and mystery of vr

Concise. Interesting. Clear. Straight to the Point. Love it, good stuff guys!

@SpidaMez

2 жыл бұрын

@jaytea2642

2 жыл бұрын

Did not expect to see u here

@skibur848

2 жыл бұрын

why are YOU everywhere? And you're actually a content creator!

@altf4755

2 жыл бұрын

a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

@patrickhill7862

2 жыл бұрын

bro why are u here lol

The display can be burned by sunlight because of the lens assembly, so it's probably quite a common repair

@ChristopherKunz

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this.

@mbcommandnerd

2 жыл бұрын

They tell you right on the lens when you first take it out of the box to avoid sunlight at all costs, so it’s pretty hard to miss.

@cantseewhatcantbeseen4485

2 жыл бұрын

Had one of those cheap phone VR sets sitting in a car one afternoon and came back with clean lines where the plastic was melted. It took a bit to realize what happened but was pretty cool after figuring it out.

@Shadow__X

2 жыл бұрын

@@mbcommandnerd if you've ever been on the quest subreddit, you know how many people ignore the warnings

@MrUnder30seconds

2 жыл бұрын

who uses their vr in the sun?

That's pretty crazy. I hate to say it, but even though Facebook/Meta is taking over the industry (Unfortunately), their acquisition of Oculus has improved the overall VR experience so far. My Quest 2 has taken some pretty serious accidental beatings, so serious respect for the Oculus design team!

@Thezuule1

2 жыл бұрын

Love them or hate them, Oculus/Meta is the only reason VR is thriving rather than slowly bleeding out.

@laos85

2 жыл бұрын

I was surprised how well made and design Quest 2 is and all those just for $300. This thing is built to be as tough as a tank with great potential.

@Gersberms

2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe how quickly they basically stopped all PC VR projects. All they're doing is keeping the Oculus software on life support for the time being. I am SO glad for the excellent Oculus Link and Virtual Desktop software though, so I get to use it with Steam.

@dbchees3

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gersberms Yes, this is a issue that has even affected me. Previously, I had a Rift S, but with no spare parts or spare cables, it is a big paperweight. Perfectly good HMD, but with no working cable. Ridiculous.

@Gersberms

2 жыл бұрын

@@dbchees3 I had a Rift S and as soon as I had tried my Quest 2 for the first time, I put the Rift S on eBay. The Quest is better in every way except the shape of the controllers. The ring is perfect on the Rift because it goes around your hand, it's perfectly natural. For the Quest they had to put it on the wrong side of the controller and I hate that.

Yass, so glad you finally did a Quest teardown! No score today though?

@massimiliano1306

2 жыл бұрын

i say six and a half brapples

@smgabardo

2 жыл бұрын

@@massimiliano1306 six and a half? id say something more like a 4-5

@Ucceah

2 жыл бұрын

i wonder what took 'em so long

@achannelhasnoname5182

2 жыл бұрын

It should be really high score IMO. Everything is replacable, nothing is glued in (except with strips of course). Sure it is not so easy to tear down, but that is always the case with electronics, that are so densely packed with hardware.

@tommykarrick9130

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe no rating because there’s so little to compare against, it’s sort of a one of a kind piece of hardware right now in the west as opposed to the thousands of different laptops on the market

I’m so glad that battery is in a thick casing and not just wrapped in mylar

1:08 - I thought you said 62 screws for a second and I got really worried for the repairability of the quest 2 for a sec XD

@Mrcheesebumble

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: the Playstation 5 has something like 32(?) screws to take out before you gain access to the motherboard.

4:57 probably more than you think, they have extremely clear warnings about avoiding using the device outside or leaving it near a window because direct sunlight through the eye pieces gets magnified and can burn the screen

@eternalinsignia

2 жыл бұрын

Well they should gives the lens shutter like in camera or at least a lens cover with the package. The absent of these is mindblowing for this kind of device when it cost only 3 dollar or less foe the cover and shutter to protect lense is freaking old tech.

No way, man. If I try to disassemble my quest 2, I'll end up having to buy a new quest 2.

@Urko2005

2 жыл бұрын

Thats why better to just watch this guy do it.

I was fully ready to watch a good 10-20 minute vid of you breaking it down, cause I didnt look at the time of the vid. But it ended so soon with such a easy understandable amount of knowledge amazing

pls show how to do that with the controllers. I would love to see the inside of those

Holy cow, all of that crammed into such a small device that can run VR Fairly well is crazy. Just think, about 6 years ago Oculus released basically their first headset.

Omg finally I haven't see any good disassembly of the quest 2 till now. Thank you

I was waiting for this! Thanks

This is my DREAM console so thanks for showing me inside one! 👍

It's a small wonder in itself that it doesn't overheat constantly with how densely packed everything is, and how tiny that cooling system is. And yet, the only time I've ever heard of one of these overheating is if someone stuck a case on it that obstructed the air vents. (Basically that entire 1mm gap where the front plate meets the rest of the assembly.) As much as I hate Zucc for his dystopian actions on the macro scale, I have nothing but mad respect for the engineers at Oculus who managed to make this little thing possible.

Wow. Amazing job. Thank you for all your work.

Thank you! I've always wanted to see what's going on in these things!

Great breakdown, after 2100 hours in this headset (95% with PCVR) with no issues it is insane what they did. I use a battery pack and cable and get 13-14 hours out of it too.

@heyjohnsmith

Жыл бұрын

AMVR battery pack?

@mr_coffee0508

Жыл бұрын

i would be throwing up everyday if i was you

@iamaspirit9912

Жыл бұрын

@@heyjohnsmith nope nothing special just a regular battery with high enough v to charge while playing.

@iamaspirit9912

Жыл бұрын

@@mr_coffee0508 I got lucky. I'm one of the few that doesn't get any motion sickness no matter what I do in vr

@doomsday9973

9 ай бұрын

Get outside dude. Seriously

I'm really glad that this is out now. Finding a tutorial to get to the battery was never really out there for the longest time. While I really like my quest 2 batteries are products that will go bad over time so knowing how to get to it when it eventually goes bad will be very helpful.

@En1gmatic1

2 жыл бұрын

But what batteries will we need or will be available once we need them?

@DFX2KX

2 жыл бұрын

@@En1gmatic1 someone will offer a generic replacement, I'm sure. it's mostly a matter of them figuring out what the pinout is, as that's a standard type of connector. this also means that, if you where rather brave, you *could* cut a hole in the case and lead a larger pack in, and there are arguably reasons to do this.

@ge2719

2 жыл бұрын

@@En1gmatic1 yeah with there being millions of these sold, once there is a market for replacements they will be out there. though you really have to trust the supplier at that point, otherwise your strapping a bomb to your face.

Very informative, this was awesome. Been too nervous to take one apart lol.

i like that they made it not to hard to replace some stuff unline other headsets or apple

Nice! Now I can apply my last bit of arctic silver thermal paste I have sitting in my desk to mine!

Man. Thank you. This is amazing.

I broke my vr head set in the inside but when i saw this it helped me a alot!!!

thanks for that. i was really curious about the inside construction.

this is the video i been looking for thanks

amazing piece of technology, the controllers are also packed and look like they can take a beating from inside

@bandombeviews6035

2 жыл бұрын

The controllers are built like tanks

Thanks for this tare down so I know how to replace the screen or lense

People take for granted these things we use so easily, but they never realize how hard and all the engineering and worl that goes into these pieces of technology. Im so glad Im someone who appreciates an understands the hard work thats done for us.

coming from a Lenovo Explorer im still amazed how good this thing is.

Very cool breakdown. Thank you

Great teardown video!

Great video. Thanks!

2:27 you can actually adjust it between the notches if you're careful

Most important - did the Quest 2 still work when reassembled? Great job on disassembly - love these videos.

So cool! Thank you for showing us the innards!

Thank you for doing this teardown. No way I'll ever be able to do that, with my vision. LOL Really learned a lot from this. :)

Nice. Thanks!

Really great content, thanks!

You made it look so easy to to take the plastic off after the 4 screws

This is a work of art

Now that you have the battery out, you might as well keep it in separate enclosure and put it in the head-strap behind head as counterweight.

Good vid. Now I can dust clean mine and change the thermal paste.

They should put the battery on the head strap so it’s on the back of your head. Then it’s easy to swap out and would help balance the weight of the thing.

Neat, I was so curious what the display looked like on the inside

FINALLY THANK YOU

HOURS of setup and calibration for other headsets is a MASSIVE overstatement

Great video. Thanks.

I thought this was the steam game for some reason and got so excited

this guy can hear into the future holy cow

While watching the teardown I wanted to hug my headset and thank myself for buying it in time

Finally k was waiting for thjs

Neat! Subscribing for sure. Glad this popped up on my recommended :)

Great video ❤

Thats so cool

Loved the video, I would like for the controllers to be covered on another video.

FINALLY!!! A QUEST 2 TEARDOWN

I was waiting so long for this video, I just need to find some replacement parts which they are none available at the moment :(

This video deserves more likes and views!

finally i waiting ifixit to teardown this. maybe make a compare to another meta product rift and quest 1

I'll be thinking of this as I play Zenith for hours on end 😁

It would be cool to see the screen powered on. I’d imagine the DPI being very high making the image look sharp

@betafi4535

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure sony has a 4k phone, would probably look similar to that. Also I bet the image on the display would look really warped without the lenses

@virtualtools_3021

2 жыл бұрын

@@betafi4535 the res per eye is 1920x18xx so pretty much spot on

@REDxFROG

2 жыл бұрын

What exactly is high DPI? The DK2 has a pretty high DPI compared to the virtual boy. And the Varjo Aero???

@evolicious

2 жыл бұрын

@@REDxFROG High DPI would mean no SDE (screen door effect). It really depends on PPI, lens tech, display tech, and more. Varjo Aero is a commercial device that isn't viable for consumers or any mainstream VR software (despite it's OpenXR/VR compatibility). Like most commercial VR systems, you need a team of engineers to support the software you plan to use with it. Otherwise, it's a $3,200-$5,500 (plus an $800-$1,500 annual fee) paper weight.

@Athedits.

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is I have the quest 2 also it's realy neat

Great video; while this IS your forte, I haven’t seen the inside of my quest 2 yet. Thanks.

I wonder if you could mount some cylinder battery holders on top and use one or two 18650’s. Maybe someone could manufacture a cable that could be routed out the case.

Man, I wish they did clear cases, would totally replace it my self if they were available

Am I the only one who loves seeing the guts of the tech? I wish I could buy a polycarbonate replacement faceplate.

Now I just need to figure out the logistics of balancing a better battery with power draw so the thing won't die even when it's plugged in through link.

It's not mentioned in the video but I'm just going to suggest that the aftermarket Elite Head Strap (with a battery) is worth a teardown video, it would make a lot more sense to get the upgraded strap and replace the battery inside it than to ever open this thing just to replace the battery in the HMD.

Great video. Can you do another one on official head strap repair. They break like candy.

Really interesting teardown, thank you! I repair pcs, phones etc, and I can see VR headsets becoming routine for me at some point.

Finnally ifixit did it👍

I wonder if it'd be possible to replace the IPD adjustment system with a different one that gave finer control like the original Quest.

To think this might all be condensed into basically sunglasses in the near future 🧠💥

if you want a more proper answer on how they track using cameras, AFAIK it's just by recognizing common objects and land marks in the area you're in, then they measure their size, check how much it gets smaller and bigger and how it rotates to track the headset. if it gets bigger you're moving forward! and you can see the object on the left of the headset move back, so that's how they can know, and they probably combine it with the accelerometer data to get better accuracy.

@lorow2542

2 жыл бұрын

It's called SLAM tracking, and basically works the way you described

You can gently slide the lense until it’s in between the settings

Only reason why I’m watching this so I can spray paint the shell

I hope someone makes replacement lenses for it or even upgrades. As far as I know there are only add-ons and not replacements . Hopefully that will change in the future

wow look what a lot of materials and work, ha

Nice!

Seeing this would make the Arpara AIO all the more impressive, since it's made by a small company so being able to cram that much tech into an even smaller and lighter overal package is just that. Of course it could still be bad, but chances are it's as good as the Quest 2 in most aspects (and far better in terms of resolution, image quality, clarity and dark performance since micro oled). The Kickstarter ends in a few days and they should be in the hands of backers before the end of next month (and in hands of reviewers some time between now and then).

1:10 You skipped taking off the ribbon cable.... thats literally the only reason i clicked on this video 😢

Waiting for Quest 3 tear down on 10/10. Thanks first!

Had plenty of hard knocks since I got mine, both the headset and the controller. Still running strong. Then again Thrill threw his in a dryer for an hour and it was fine.

Have you ever saw a display have Amy thing distorting the view? Like on the right side I see a squiggly green line . It always show like it's something in the lens making the display distorted. When I move my head it moves also.

Next, the controllers... The joystick ghosting has been really bugging me off

@victortitov1740

2 жыл бұрын

and i've contacted oculus support to get the part and they said they don't sell it and couldn't provide me with a part number. They did offer me a controller replacement though, which i politely refused and temporarily fixed it myself. Not sure if my fix is gonna last. I really hope that part will become available from the usual suspects as quest2 gets more popular and the demand for them increases.

@Thezuule1

2 жыл бұрын

Tried cleaning the exterior lenses and adjusting the room lighting? Possibly forcing the tracking frequency to your country's lighting?

@_WADE13x

2 жыл бұрын

Replacing the batteries fixed it for me

I'm just going to stay plugged in or get an external battery when my battery starts going. I mainly looked this up though to see where the fan was because I felt it blowing and just simply got curious.

Gotta say that this has to be one of the best and few Oculus Quest 2 teardowns I've ever seen. I been thinking about modding mine since i bought the 64gb model before they decided to phase them out. Might be able to cut a hole for a bigger heat sink so it wont make my face sweaty lol

@virtualtools_3021

2 жыл бұрын

3d print a vented spacer with integrated laptop or other similar small and thin fan, I wonder if anyone has made something like that

@batterypwrlow

2 жыл бұрын

@@virtualtools_3021 i like that idea. Or a new front cover that's a bit more bulged out to put a bigger fan and heatsink inside. Even battery. I should invest in a 3d printer as my next big splurge purchase. Nothing too fancy should be ok.

@SzDavidHUN

2 жыл бұрын

There's a product for this. It a modified facial interface which has space for a fan that goes on the top of the HDM. Bobovr fan is the thing to search for, I heard good things about it but I haven't tried it myself and kinda not cheap.

@batterypwrlow

2 жыл бұрын

@@SzDavidHUN i saw what you was talking about. Kinda reminds me of one of those blower clip fans you attach to the side of your laptop to blast air into it. But what i was going for was cooling the headset's hardware. Like there is this video i forgot who posted it where a guy liquid cooled the internal cpu.

@ge2719

2 жыл бұрын

i think the best mod for the quest 2 would be a replacement headstrap that gives it the ability to get the lenses right up to your eyes like the valve index. i get a far higher fov with the quest when i take the face foam off. but then its not comfortable. replacing the entire quest 2 shell wil a minimal shell that sits inside a headset frame with a adjustment dial like the index would be really cool.

Dope asf

I can tell you exactly why that screen is attached with stretch release adhesive: Sunlight. You *can* play outdoors in VR, but if the sun goes into those eyepeices and through the lens, it *will* cook the screen. This happened often enough on the older headsets (of all makes, not just Oculus/Meta/whatever they're called next well) that it made sense to decrease the price of the repair on the manufacturer end, because the customer will pay out the nose for it regardless, bigger profits on the service.

@DFX2KX

2 жыл бұрын

What *I'd* like to see is a teardown of the touch controllers, because that's the part that's going to get broken more often (yours truly has a minor crack in the tracking ring. Doorframe 1, Quest 0, oof)

2:28 that $300 price tag really aged well, the increase by 100 could've been put towards the ipd slider

I always get dizzy with VR sets… but that’s because I wear glasses normally and it just isn’t always comfortable to deal with.

One thing worth mentioning regarding the battery, is that the elite strap with battery is a way better strap, and just replacing the elite strap would cost less than replacing the whole device.

@ge2719

2 жыл бұрын

someone should test if the device can work with an external battery when the internal one has failed. it might not function with a dead battery

Awesome

Is there a way to mod the Quest to bypass the battery and feed it directly with the power needed for PC gaming and applications? When I set my Q2 to max resolution and framerate etc, it drains the battery quickly. I understand this is because you can only charge the battery with external cable which is limited to protect the health of the battery? Need more power! Good to see a teardown and see that it can be repaired, even if its complicated.

I really wish the battery was on the head strap to save weight in the unit.

i thought it was so funny once i found out so many people got an oculus quest 2 for christmas and i wasnt very special 😆

Great video! Only thing that i still want to see is how well the charging port is soldered and secured.

@aprillove143

2 жыл бұрын

Did you ever find the info my charger is lose and I need to tear down

@the_rabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

@@aprillove143 i havent but i would just get someone experienced in micro-soldering to check with a voltage tester and repair if necessary. BUT only if you cant get meta to replace the headset entirely. I hear they'll replace it if its manufacturing error. Im no expert but ive done some repairs. And first thing you wanna do is see if thecompany will fix it for you. Because if you take it apart they DEFINITELY wont replace it.

@aprillove143

2 жыл бұрын

@@the_rabbitt I actually did the Meta Chat support and was able to send it in even though my vr is 16 months old they made an exception to have it replaced. I took that route! But still so many people having charger issues, I see it on Facebook daily. Im surprised not ONE charge port discovery video. Would be very interesting to see why they are melting or becoming unsecured and unmounted like mine.

@the_rabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

@@aprillove143 im glad to hear that it worked out. Once mine eventually goes and dies ill make a video about it. But im hoping that wont be for a long while.

@the_rabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

@@aprillove143 do you happen to live in Hawaii? Just curious.

Its so crazy to think that vr has gone this far