Re:Valve drops VR support for macOS
by bangonkeyboard on Friday May 01, 2020 @11:14PM
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> Also all macs are now stuck on OpenGL 4.1 forever, it may not matter much now, but it will show in future.
Not forever: OpenGL is deprecated on macOS and will be removed in the future. I will be very surprised if OpenGL survives the ARM transition.
Re:Valve drops VR support for macOS
by reom_tobit on Friday May 01, 2020 @11:20PM
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Imprecise language on my part. I meant that’s the final version that they’re ever going to support (if you can call the current state “support”), but yeah you’re 100% correct.
There is no Vulkan support on Mac as far as I know, except with MoltenVK...
Re:Valve drops VR support for macOS
by reom_tobit on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:14AM
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There isn’t, you’re right. I was more future proofing my answer :)
Took about 2 days to take a win project to linux, that same win project took about 3 weeks to port to mac.
That was the first time I’d done it of course (to either mac or linux), but I just found the mac documentation to be severely lacking.
Also all macs are now stuck on OpenGL 4.1 forever, it may not matter much now, but it will show in future.
And yes I know Vulkan is a thing but I think that’ll take a while to fully be adopted by the games community.