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iFixit’s Meta Quest 3S teardown reveals a Quest 2 ‘hiding inside’


What if I told you the Meta Quest 3S is in some ways just a more powerful Quest 2 with color passthrough? “Yes, of course it is,” someone who’s read our coverage might say, but iFixit shows just how true that is in the teardown video it published today.

The first hint of that is the headset’s Fresnel lenses, which iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari writes in a blog post are “100% compatible” with those used by the Quest 2. The headset has the older headset’s IPD adjustment mechanism, as well; and it shares the same single LCD panel, rather than using one panel per eye, like the Meta Quest 3.

Screenshot: YouTube

This is what sits behind the faceplate of the Quest 3S.

Legacy parts aside, iFixit found that the 3S uses two…

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