Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware

Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by giobox on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:49PM (#36979491)

There was also the infamous white iPhone 4 debacle, they had almost shipped the next one the following year before anyone got a white handset. A white handset may not sound like a big deal, but people really wanted that thing.

That sticks out as one of the worst delays between announcement and shipping I can recall in Apple's history (~10 months and multiple delays).

> https://venturebeat.com/mobile/apple-explains-white-iphone-d...

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by photonerd on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:22PM (#36980596)

Yeah, that was a technical delay (or rather a quality delay with a technical process). Was a super interesting problem they ran into.

Very fascinating from a material science standpoint

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:13PM (#36980923)

Can you fill me in without search? I somehow missed the whole thing.

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by simondotau on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:51PM (#36981150)

Fill you in about what exactly? And what do you mean by "without search"? There is contemporaneous reporting on the matter available online, it's going to be more useful for you than someone's twelve year old recollections.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/apple-delays-white-i...

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Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware by beAbU on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:13AM (#36983747)

IIRC

The home button and the bezel were made by different manufacturers IIRC, and the two plastics aged/coloured at different rates.

It took them ages to get it such that the button and bezel will colour match perfectly.

Easy to do with black, very difficult with white.

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