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« on: June 06, 2017, 04:05:22 pm »

With Apple opening the doors, here's what happens next for VR on the Mac

FINALLY. Apple and VR aren't strangers anymore!

Someone told Apple that not supporting VR meant not only are Apple-loving VR fans leaving for Windows but so are the developers responsible for creating the thousands of amazing experiences now available. To address this, macOS High Sierra will come with a big upgrade to the Metal APIs.

It's called Metal 2, and while it is absolutely the last critical step in VR experiences on a Mac, it doesn't mean every Mac will automatically have total VR support.

Apple's VR efforts, explained



Where Apple's Augmented Reality efforts will be almost entirely mobile, Virtual Reality on the Mac requires some support from the things that make this industry go right now. Primarily, that means Unity and Unreal Engine. There aren't many VR experiences that use other things, so by making sure Unity and Unreal play nice on the Mac, there's a huge number of VR apps that could potentially be easy-ish to make available to Mac users.

SteamVR is another big pa...

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