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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:21PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:21PM (#662489)

    3D stereoscopic video is an amazing feature by itself.

    Yet, we consumers never really got that feature, because the smartypants tied it to "virtual reality", where you had to be able to run around and interact with your environment.

    Why couldn't they just have given us 3D stereoscopic video?

    Same thing with AI. The "geniuses" were telling us nearly 70 years ago (!) that computers were going to be thinking better than humans any day now. Then, some of the technojocks said "Hey. I bet we can make these computers identify erotically stimulating butts in an arbitrary collection of photos!" And they did. And, now, the "geniuses" have come back to ruin the fun, stopping all butt-finding projects in order to fund "Artificial General Intelligence".

    Just gives us some useful tools already. That's all we need for the interim.

  • (Score: 2) by quacking duck on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:06PM

    by quacking duck (1395) on Wednesday April 04 2018, @03:06PM (#662509)

    Yet, we consumers never really got that feature, because the smartypants tied it to "virtual reality", where you had to be able to run around and interact with your environment.

    Specific terms get hijacked to mean different things. This has all happened before, it will happen again.

    Kilobyte, megabyte, etc... not exactly 1000 bytes, or 1M bytes. There's KiB and MiB now, but you almost never see it. And then Apple caught flak for realigning those terms with the actual meaning of kilo, mega and giga...

    Net neutrality. Definitions are all over the map.

    Hacking. Once a benign term, now means something malicious.

    People are too lazy to learn the actual meanings of things.

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:43PM (4 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday April 04 2018, @04:43PM (#662547) Journal

    Why couldn't they just have given us 3D stereoscopic video?

    Are you talking about 3D TV's/monitors you view with glasses or a "VR" headset without motion sensors?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:06PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @05:06PM (#662555)

      We just need 2 images for a much more immersive experience.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @07:49PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @07:49PM (#662609)

        3D tvs / cinema 3D projection systems provide 2 images - 1 to each eye. So what's needed?

        • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday April 04 2018, @08:18PM

          by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday April 04 2018, @08:18PM (#662619) Homepage Journal

          More content? And long, in depth content covering the full spectrum of interests that 2D covers instead of being limited to gimmicky 3D demos for casual users.

          --
          If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @09:41PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @09:41PM (#662647)

          Passive 3D displays cuts the resolution in half, and active 3D is not much better, anyway. Both reduce the brightness of the image, and active 3D requires powered glasses, the shutter mechanism of which may cause subtle irritation to the user.

          Plus, you've got to sit in a particular location in order to achieve the best results.