Alternatively, it may have decided that the tethered market just isn’t big enough to focus on.
STEAM VR SUPPORTED DEVICES DRIVER
a Virtual Reality headset driver for SteamVR Normally, the two devices should. The company may decide to support this in MacOS in a similar way to Facebook’s Oculus Link. The Cybershoes are compatible with any VR game, and function with SteamVR. Despite being even less popular than macOS, Linux is preferred by developers, and required for certain advanced enterprise and government use cases.Īpple is reportedly working on a standalone mixed reality headset slated for 2022. Valve states it will now “focus on Windows and Linux”. Given that just over 1% own a VR headset at all, it’s easy to see just how niche VR on macOS likely was. Apple doesn’t seem to have made a statement on this yet, but we’ve reached out to employees who worked on Metal’s VR support.Īccording to Valve’s Hardware Survey, just under 4% of Steam users are using macOS, with over 95% using Microsoft’s Windows. Less than two years later, Valve is announcing ending support for macOS.
In September 2018, Apple added support for HTC’s Vive Pro, including giving developers access to the onboard stereo cameras, presumably for AR development. SteamVR Will Support Windows Mixed Reality Devices SteamVR Will Support Windows Mixed Reality Devices By Joel Hruska on Augat 7:30 am Comments Microsoft has announced that the first. Later in the conference, employees from Industrial Light and Magic gave a live onstage mixed reality demo of VR on macOS - a Star Wars scene running on Unreal Engine. The company even worked with Unity and Unreal Engine to make this available to all developers. Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry.Īt the time, Apple released updates to Metal, its equivalent of Vulkan/DX12, to make it suitable for high performance low latency VR rendering, including via external GPUs on MacBooks.
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