{"id":29347,"date":"2017-06-05T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/steamvr-is-coming-to-mac-and-apple-says-it-will-actually-work\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:04:21","slug":"steamvr-is-coming-to-mac-and-apple-says-it-will-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/steamvr-is-coming-to-mac-and-apple-says-it-will-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamVR is coming to Mac\u2014and Apple says it will actually work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> First-ever HTC Vive demo from Apple on a Mac system. (credit: Apple)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Apple’s Monday WWDC keynote included a quick-fire presentation about gaming content on Macs\u2014but the biggie was\u00a0VR, along with a path for underpowered Mac systems to potentially get up to speed to running it.<\/p>\n

Senior Vice President Craig Federighi confirmed that “Valve is bringing SteamVR to Mac.” Soon after, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system. An ILM\u00a0tester dropped TIE Fighters,\u00a0Imperial Cruisers, and Darth Vader into a Star Wars<\/em>-themed world, using nothing more than an on-screen GUI controlled with HTC Vive wands.<\/p>\n

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A GPU enclosure is coming to boost gaming and VR performance for older Mac systems.<\/a> (credit: Andrew Cunningham)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While newer home Mac systems will come with the kind of horsepower needed to render HTC Vive-ready content at a comfortable 90 frames-per-second refresh (a number that ILM said they had reached with their demo), Federighi also announced a new GPU enclosure for less-powerful\u00a0Mac systems. It will connect via Thunderbolt 3 and come equipped with an AMD Radeon RX 580 video card. Developers will have first dibs on this enclosure, as it will debut as a “dev kit.” No release date or price was confirmed, nor did Apple comment on options for older systems without TB3 support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ First-ever HTC Vive demo from Apple on a Mac system. (credit: Apple) Apple’s Monday WWDC keynote included a quick-fire presentation about gaming content on Macs\u2014but the biggie was\u00a0VR, along with a path for underpowered Mac systems to potentially get up to speed to running it. Senior Vice President Craig Federighi confirmed that “Valve… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming","category-general-info"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t