Not too long ago the avid teardown people over at iFixit obtained their paws on Meta’s Ray-Ban Show glasses, for a literal in-depth have a look at these good glasses. Alongside the best way they got here throughout the fascinating geometric waveguide know-how that makes the floating show characteristic work so nicely. There’s additionally an accompanying video of the complete teardown, for many who get pleasure from watching a metallic field cutter get jammed into plastic.
Total, these good glasses might be thought-about to be considerably repairable, as you’ll be able to pry the arms open with a bit of warmth. Inside you’ll discover the 960 mWh battery and a handful of PCBs, however discovering spare elements for something past maybe the battery might be a problem. The entrance a part of the glasses include the antennae and the particular lens on the appropriate aspect that works with the liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) projector to replicate the picture again to your eye.
Whereas LCoS has been used for a few years already, together with Google Glass, it’s the glass that gives the largest technological development. As an alternative of the standard diffractive waveguide it makes use of a geometrical reflective waveguide made by Schott, with the know-how developed by Lumus to be used in augmented actuality (AR) functions. That is supposed to supply higher optical effectivity, in addition to much less gentle leakage into or out of the waveguide.
Though positively spectacular know-how, the general repairability rating of those good glasses is fairly low, and you must contest with each trying extremely dorky and a few individuals contemplating you to be a little bit of a glasshole.
