Subj : An Apple Vision Pro has been tested to destruction and you might To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Mon Feb 05 2024 13:00:06 An Apple Vision Pro has been tested to destruction and you might be surprised by the results Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:47:17 +0000 Description: The Vision Pro has gone through a brutal series of tests, yet it wasnt nearly as fragile as you might expect. FULL STORY ====================================================================== The Apple Vision Pro comes with a hefty price tag, and youd think that would make anyone who bought one very careful not to break it. Well, not so with YouTuber Sam Kohl, who put the headset through a gruellingly destructive set of tests on his AppleTrack channel to see how much punishment the device could take before breaking. In the video, Kohl tried various (rather unscientific) tests, such as walking into walls and bumping the headset on doors. After about 20 hits, Kohl only noticed a couple of minor scuffs, declaring himself to be super impressed at the headsets durability. However, after a few drops Kohl noticed that the right speaker had stopped working. Then, after what the YouTuber described as an extreme drop test the eighth drop the headset went through the front glass finally cracked. Interestingly, Apple has included multiple layers of glass on the Vision Pro, and only the front one broke in Kohls test. When he removed this broken panel, the glass underneath remained intact. That suggests the Vision Pro is a lot more durable than you might expect for something consisting of so much glass. The Vision Pros glass only fully cracked when dropped from a great height as high as Kohls ceiling and never shattered into thousands of pieces, instead staying as one mostly-contiguous piece of broken glass. It also withstood multiple drops and hits against a wall with only a few minor scuffs to show for it. Remarkably, the device still worked without its front glass panel. Kohl also shared a couple of interesting tidbits. For one thing, the magnetic connection that binds the light seal to the headset is not particularly strong, and the headset can detach and potentially fall to the ground if you try to lift it using just the light seal. As well as that, Kohl found that the Vision pro only warns you if youre close to a wall in its virtual reality (VR) mode, not when using passthrough augmented reality (AR). So, if you use AR, watch out for your surroundings! The iFixit teardown (Image credit: iFixit) Kohls drop tests were not the only destructive process the Vision Pro has gone through recently. Over the weekend, the repair experts at iFixit tore down Apples device to reveal its insides and to work out how repairable it really is. The outlet noted that it was tough to get into the Vision Pro, with the front glass panel only coming off after a lot of heat and time. On the inside was a small army of screws, tape and brackets holding a huge array of components in place. The whole process looked incredibly fiddly. Well, almost the whole process. The Vision Pro did earn some praise from iFixit for how easy it is to remove the battery and speakers, which only need a SIM card removal tool to pop off the connectors . However, that approval was diminished somewhat by Apple using a proprietary jumbo Lightning connector instead of USB-C . The headset didnt receive a repairability score as iFixit is still working on its full assessment, but it did get something of an early verdict: Repairability-wise, its not great, but on the plus side, some of the connections are quite delightful. That said, most people probably wont want to repair it themselves given how intricate its insides are. Still, considering how durable the Vision Pro seems to be after AppleTracks tests, maybe you wont need to repair it after all. You might also like Two days with Vision Pro: Apple's almost convinced me to part with $3,500 by transforming everything I do Vision Pro 8 reasons to buy Apple's next-gen mixed-reality headset and some reasons to skip it Someone just found a funny surprise hidden inside the Apple Vision Pro headset ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/an-apple-vision-pro-has-been-tested-to-des truction-and-you-might-be-surprised-by-the-results --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .