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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @11:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the apple-port-of-call dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

When Apple unveiled the iMac Pro in December, it did so with an assist from third-party developers. The company showcased creators who were working on applications that applied the iMac Pro's capabilities to new things previously not possible on prior, less-capable Mac hardware. Most notably, more than one dev was using the iMac Pro for virtual reality (VR) development, something Apple had announced its intentions to support at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June of last year.

One of the participating studios, Survios, had been approached by Apple to port its new title Electronauts to macOS. Electronauts is a virtual music-production tool that allows the user to DJ quantized music with various 3D tools, as if they were standing on a stage surrounded by equipment.

After hearing about Electronauts in December, Survios invited Ars out to its studio in the Los Angeles municipality of Culver City (one of the United States' most concentrated hot beds of both VR and indie game development) to hear more about exactly what was involved in porting VR software to the Mac.

It may still be early days for VR on Mac, but at least one longtime development studio sees potential for the platform after experiencing Apple's support firsthand.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/everything-a-vr-studio-had-to-do-to-port-to-the-mac/


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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:15PM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:15PM (#662458) Journal

    Not sure who you are criticising with this particular comment.

    Firstly, it is a quotation from the article. That is why it is inside blockquote tags. If that is what the article says, then that is what we quote.

    How is it that people get paid to make grammar mistakes that are supposed to be corrected in elementary school

    Secondly, I've got no idea how much the writer of the original article got paid, but you are making an assumption there. He might have done the work voluntarily, in which case Ars Technica got exactly what they paid for.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:20PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:20PM (#662460)

    English, MOTHERFUCKER, do you speak it?!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:32PM (#662465)

      You got the GP, no he doesn't speak English, none of what's in the post is English, you're just fooling yourself into thinking that Russian is English.

      Tosser.