{"id":347836,"date":"2017-06-21T06:08:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T22:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/20\/unreal-early-access-vr-support\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T06:08:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T22:08:52","slug":"unreal-engine-gains-early-access-support-for-developing-vr-content-in-macos-high-sierra-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/unreal-engine-gains-early-access-support-for-developing-vr-content-in-macos-high-sierra-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal Engine Gains Early Access Support for Developing VR Content in macOS High Sierra [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At its 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced Metal 2, the next-iteration of its graphics API for iOS, tvOS, and macOS. Metal 2 includes support for VR content creation for the first time, and when Metal 2 was highlighted at the event, Apple said Valve, Unity, and Unreal would bring their VR tools to the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games is making good on Apple&#8217;s promise, and has announced that it is releasing early access support for developing for virtual reality on Mac platforms through <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/EpicGames\/UnrealEngine\/tree\/dev-vr-mac\">the Unreal Engine Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/unrealmacos-800x438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-572117\"\/><br \/>At WWDC, Industrial Light &amp; Magic Chief Creative Officer John Knoll took the stage to demo the Unreal Editor running live in VR mode on one of Apple&#8217;s newly announced iMacs.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S48T-cOG0ks\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>Going forward, Epic Games plans to add full support for VR development on macOS in an upcoming release. Mac VR support, along with general Metal 2 support and Mac optimizations, will ship in Unreal Engine 4.18, with previews coming in September and a full release coming in early October.<\/p>\n<p>Valve started offering a <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/250820\/announcements\/detail\/1256915122285021922\">SteamVR for macOS beta<\/a> back on June 5, as did <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.unity3d.com\/2017\/06\/05\/xr-on-ios-and-macos\/\">Unity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> According to Epic Games, early access support will actually be available starting tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced Metal 2, the next-iteration of its graphics API for iOS, tvOS, and macOS. Metal 2 includes support for VR content creation for the first time, and when Metal 2 was highlighted at the event, Apple said Valve, Unity, and Unreal would bring their VR tools to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":347837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-347836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}