iFixit dissects Oculus Rift to reveal custom display and new lenses

If you just spent $600 on an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, you probably don’t want start ripping into it with a screwdriver. Thankfully, other people can handle that.

The Oculus Rift is moderately easy to repair, according to the crowdsourced repair-guide site iFixit. The company posted its teardown of the head-mounted display from Facebook subsidiary Oculus VR, and its team found that the Rift is difficult to get inside of and it has a lot of ribbon cables that are easy to damage. Despite these issues, iFixit still scored the Rift a 7 out of 10 for “repairability” because it has efficient cable management and easy-to-remove earpieces. We’re in the early days of a VR market that could go on to make $30 billion in revenues by 2020, according to analysts at tech adviser Digi-Capital, but iFixit has revealed that Oculus has used years of knowledge from releasing development kits to deliver a device with a lot of smart design choices.