Apple Is Partnering With Valve To Bring Steam Vr To Macs

At WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference) Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior VP and check-out-my-dad-jeans cool guy, announced that Apple are partnering with Valve and the Vive to bring VR are to iMacs and MacBooks.

Apple is rolling out a new operating system called High Sierra, and more powerful iMacs and Macbooks (including the iMac Pro a ‘killer iMac‘ for professionals coming in December) and demonstrated using VR on their systems by getting developers from ILM and Unreal (John Knoll and Lauren Ridge, respectively) to drive a demo on stage. 

Ridge works on a Star Wars scene from inside VR. There is totally emergent banter about Darth Vader.

ILM claim that the demo was able to run at 90 FPS. Oof. The combined high price point of the Vive and a Mac together, however, mean this partnership probably won’t be for the average consumer.