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06-06-2017, 07:45 AM
Apple's macOS update finally opens up VR, HTC Vive to Mac developers
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With all the recent talk from Tim Cook (http://mashable.com/category/tim-cook%20?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) about Apple's focus on augmented reality, it came as a bit of a surprise on Monday at WWDC (http://mashable.com/category/wwdc%20?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) when the company unveiled new support for virtual reality content creation.*
SEE ALSO: 'House of Cards' discovers VR, shows us its silly and deadly serious sides (http://mashable.com/2017/06/01/house-of-cards-vr-therapy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Along with the new High Sierra (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-wwdc-2017-macos-1013/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) version of the macOS, Apple introduced Metal 2, the company's advanced graphics tech**logy that will support VR rendering and external GPUs (Apple's new 27-inch iMac (http://mashable.com/category/imac/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and iMac Pro will support VR right out of the box).
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And this wasn't a mere "hat tip" to VR (http://mashable.com/category/vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) at the event, Apple actually gave a full demonstration of VR creation using a Mac live on stage. Led by John K**ll of Industrial Light and Magic, we got to see an HTC Vive user dive into a demo of a Star Wars experience (the title wasn't identified, but it appears to be ILMxLab immersive content (http://mashable.com/2016/07/17/darth-vader-star-wars-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) the team has been working on) that was developed using the Unreal engine.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-vr-macos-high-sierra-meta-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mac (http://mashable.com/category/mac/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Virtual Reality (http://mashable.com/category/virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Vr (http://mashable.com/category/vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Augmented Reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/A-XB6UO1YuY
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With all the recent talk from Tim Cook (http://mashable.com/category/tim-cook%20?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) about Apple's focus on augmented reality, it came as a bit of a surprise on Monday at WWDC (http://mashable.com/category/wwdc%20?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) when the company unveiled new support for virtual reality content creation.*
SEE ALSO: 'House of Cards' discovers VR, shows us its silly and deadly serious sides (http://mashable.com/2017/06/01/house-of-cards-vr-therapy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Along with the new High Sierra (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-wwdc-2017-macos-1013/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) version of the macOS, Apple introduced Metal 2, the company's advanced graphics tech**logy that will support VR rendering and external GPUs (Apple's new 27-inch iMac (http://mashable.com/category/imac/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and iMac Pro will support VR right out of the box).
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And this wasn't a mere "hat tip" to VR (http://mashable.com/category/vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) at the event, Apple actually gave a full demonstration of VR creation using a Mac live on stage. Led by John K**ll of Industrial Light and Magic, we got to see an HTC Vive user dive into a demo of a Star Wars experience (the title wasn't identified, but it appears to be ILMxLab immersive content (http://mashable.com/2016/07/17/darth-vader-star-wars-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) the team has been working on) that was developed using the Unreal engine.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-vr-macos-high-sierra-meta-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mac (http://mashable.com/category/mac/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Virtual Reality (http://mashable.com/category/virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Vr (http://mashable.com/category/vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Augmented Reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/A-XB6UO1YuY