2024-02-06 14:00:39
Team reveal iFixit The famous, specialized in electronics repair, for the precise components of eyeglasses Camel Vision Pro, which arrived in stores in the United States last Friday, explaining that the repair process is never easy.
According to the team’s blog post on its official website, the first step to opening the Vision Pro glasses was to remove the windshield of the glasses, which required the team to make an effort in the external heating process to melt the heavy adhesive material, in addition to taking some time to remove it completely, but it was damaged and melted when the parties.
It is reported that the cost of repairing the windshield of Vision Pro glasses is 800 US dollars, officially with the company.
One of the most important selling advantages of Apple Glasses, according to the company, is its EyeSight external screen, which the company presented by making its glasses transparent, and through which the user can communicate with the real world and others around him, as they can see his eyes and facial expressions.
But the report indicated that the external screen did not impress the technical reviewers. For example, the technical editor at the Wall Street Journal, Joanna Sterndescribed it as “difficult to see”, while the tech blogger Marquis Brownlee He said: “It is difficult to see my eyes when I wear glasses,” and the team attributed this to the fact that this screen is not just a display, but is composed of 3 layers.
The EyeSight screen consists of a Widening Layer, a Lenticular Layer, and finally an OLED display.
The team attributed Apple’s reliance on this design to its desire to provide three-dimensional movement to the eyes of the wearer of its glasses, and in order to achieve this, it relied on the idea of capturing multiple images of eye movements with the internal cameras, then merging them together, then passing them through the lenticular layer, then passing them through another layer. In the end, you achieve a three-dimensional effect, but with a blurry quality, closer to old playing cards, which moving them in different directions causes their elements to move blurry.
The team pointed out that in the final stage, the overlapping images are displayed on a final plastic layer to fill the front area of the glasses, which causes the brightness of what is displayed on the external screen to be reduced and reduced, making it unclear.
Vision correction lenses
Apple offers the ability to add vision correction lenses to its glasses, and the iFixit team showed an X-ray image, taken by the Creative Electron team, showing the position of the vision lenses inside the glasses.
In addition, once the user wears Vision Pro glasses, a system designed to move the lenses, closer or further away from the user’s eyes, will suit his vision level.
The technical team noted in its report that the weight of the glass layer alone reaches 34 grams, while the weight of the glasses themselves, with their external battery, is close to one kilogram.
Apple tried to reduce the weight of its new glasses, by adopting the design to make the battery independent, so that the user puts it in his pocket while using the glasses, so that it is connected to a wire in the glasses at all times, and the team suggested that this trend is in line with European Union decision The ruling requires electronics manufacturers to make their batteries easy to replace by the user by 2027.
The team considered that the heavy weight of the glasses may be stressful for the user’s head, because the entire weight rests on the face, which makes the distribution of the weight of the glasses unbalanced at head level, even in the case of using the Dual Loop Band.
The report revealed that the weight of the Vision Pro, without the battery, is close to the weight of the latest Quest 3 glasses from Meta. The first weighs 532 grams, while the second weighs 522 grams. The difference between them is not in the weight, but rather in the level of its distribution on the wearer’s head.
Extensions, straps and face mask
To secure its glasses to the head, Apple has relied on two types of straps: the first is the Solo Knit Band, and the second is the Dual Loop Band, both of which come inside the box.
The two straps are installed using a technology similar to Lightening port charging connectors, where the ends of the straps are connected in this way to two holes in the glasses, to power the speakers installed in the straps, which provide Spatial Audio.
Surprisingly, removing these straps requires using a smartphone SIM slot tool, which is similar to a knitting needle.
The team criticized Apple’s use of a wire whose end ends in a completely new outlet with Lightening technology, to charge its new glasses when connected to the external battery, because the team believed that it would have been better to use the USB-C outlet, following the company’s new approach to using the outlet with a number of its products, starting with the “iPhone.” 15″.
The team also discovered that Apple uses a magnetic mechanism to attach the face pillow that holds the glasses in front of the user’s eyes and on his nose, as the company offers 28 designs for these pillows, to suit all designs of human faces.
It is noteworthy that Vision Pro glasses are Apple’s first new product since it launched its first wireless headphones, “AirPods”, 7 years ago.
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