Steam Frame Teardown Reveals One Problem With Its Future Repairs

In an otherwise repairable device, the cooling fan is hard to reach.

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Although the Steam Frame is too expensive and late to the party to bring the masses into VR, it does a lot of things right. That includes its repairability. But iFixit's teardown flagged one component that isn't easy enough to reach: the cooling fan.

The problem? That fan is buried deep inside the headset. To get to it, you have to snake past the optical assemblies, making…