SteamVR will no longer be supported on Apple's macOS

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Today Valve Corporation announced that it is ending its support for macOS on its virtual reality gaming platform, SteamVR. Valve stated that the move was made so that it could focus on the other platforms that the virtual reality software is available on - Windows and Linux.

The announcing post on Steam was rather short and did not give away much else. It stated:

"SteamVR has ended OSX support so our team can focus on Windows and Linux.

We recommend that OSX users continue to opt into the SteamVR [macos] branches for access to legacy builds.

Users can opt into a branch by right-clicking on SteamVR in Steam, and selecting Properties... -> Betas."


SteamVR made its debut on Linux and was first brought to Apple's OSX - or macOS as it is now known - roughly three years ago. After expanding support to Microsoft's technology, it enabled compatibility with plenty of other headsets eventually.



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RyanPosted:

Unfortunate but as Gary said, not surprising.

GaryPosted:

THQ This makes no sense to me as to why they would remove this feature

Kraken_Gaming They keep Linux but get rid of Mac? Unreal

Not really surprising given the fact that MacOS forces the use of Metal2 instead of DirectX/Vulkan

Kraken_GamingPosted:

They keep Linux but get rid of Mac? Unreal

THQPosted:

This makes no sense to me as to why they would remove this feature