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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2016, @01:36AM
VR goggles require very low latency or you'll physically feel nauseous.
This is bullshit. The nauseous effect is caused by the disparity between your visual input and that of your inner ear's orientation to the ground. The "Muh Latency" lingo is just sales propaganda to convince you they fixed motion sickness, but it is 100% bullshit unless the machine comes with a graviton emitter.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday March 06 2016, @12:45PM
No. Read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness [wikipedia.org]
http://oculusrift-blog.com/john-carmacks-message-of-latency/682/ [oculusrift-blog.com]
The research leading up to helmet-mounted displays started out attempting to replace the canopies in helicopters with cameras. It goes back to the 70s and 80s and made similar observations. At the time, they didn't have the compute or quality displays to pull it off so they ended up with HMDs. Now, the money goes into drones.
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