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It's been almost a year now since Oculus announced that the consumer version of the Rift virtual reality headset would only support Windows PCs at launch—a turnaround from development kits that worked fine on Mac and Linux boxes. Now, according to Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, it "is up to Apple" to change that state of affairs. Specifically, "if they ever release a good computer, we will do it," he told Shacknews recently.
Basically, Luckey continued, even the highest-end Mac you can buy would not provide an enjoyable experience on the final Rift hardware, which is significantly more powerful than early development kits. "It just boils down to the fact that Apple doesn't prioritize high-end GPUs," he said. "You can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top-of-the-line AMD FirePro D700, and it still doesn't match our recommended specs."
"So if they prioritize higher-end GPUs like they used to for a while back in the day, we'd love to support Mac. But right now, there's just not a single machine out there that supports it," he added. "Even if we can support on the software side, there's just no audience that could run the vast majority of software on it."
Source: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/oculus-founder-rift-will-come-to-mac-if-apple-ever-release-a-good-computer/.
See also: Shacknews blog.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by archfeld on Friday March 04 2016, @03:39PM
You sound like one of those women in the wrinkle cream commercials. I just paid $900.00 for a .25 oz jar of made up fsck'n crud, of course I could admit I got taken but I won't instead I'll say how amazing it is. Why do you think snake oil salesmen get away with their con-game so often and for so long ?
"Apple is now worth more than Microsoft and Google combined"
"They just don't get it."
So we know Apple hit their goal, to make mass quantities of money, what was your goal? Giving Apple large quantities of money, or to get hardware that will allow you to have an UNDEGRADED VR experience ? You make the choice. What's more important, performance or image ?
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(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday March 04 2016, @04:27PM
what was your goal?
To get a superior OS. Sadly, the hardware sucks balls these days on the CPU and GPU side of things, that's one of the reasons, why you can build a hackintosh or get a hackbook (pro).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Friday March 04 2016, @04:40PM
So we know Apple hit their goal, to make mass quantities of money, what was your goal? Giving Apple large quantities of money, or to get hardware that will allow you to have an UNDEGRADED VR experience ? You make the choice. What's more important, performance or image ?
Functionality. What gives me the maximum gain for the minimum effort. On my laptop, that's ubuntu on a thinkpad. On my phone it's an iphone 5.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by isostatic on Friday March 04 2016, @04:42PM
So we know Apple hit their goal, to make mass quantities of money, what was your goal?
To point out that Jobs and Cook did "get it", as evidenced by your admission that Apple made tons of money.
The relative quality and costs of apple kit is neither here nor there.
I have two laptops on my desk at the moment, one cost about £900, the other about £2k. One is a PC running linux, one is a mac. The expensive one is the quality one which I use all the time, the other one I use for specific purposes (it's got a longer battery life for example).
There's a mac mini too, which as it's used for business purposes was exempt from tax and therefore actually cost about £250 5 years ago. I'm sure I could have built a £150 linux PC instead, unlikely to be as nice hardware though.