Our port to Metal from OpenGL didn’t cost us very much-Metal is a really cool API and it was critical for us to get VR up and performant,” Brown said. “Valve and Apple, we started working together more closely about a year ago. Valve’s Nat Brown joined Dhiraj on stage to talk more about what it took to get SteamVR and OpenVR running in high performance on MacOS. “We’ve been working really closely with Valve over the last year to align our releases and both SteamVR and OpenVR are available to download in beta form this week,” he announced on stage.
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To that end, the companies have been working together on the project for nearly a year, said Rav Dhiraj, a member of the GPU Software Team at Apple, who detailed Metal 2’s new VR rendering features in a session at the WWDC conference this week. But it seems there was quite a bit of development work to be done in order to make it happen, including a few missing capabilities which Apple built into the Metal 2 rendering API, at Valve’s request, in order to make it possible to render high performance VR on MacOS. Though you might think that porting SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS would be relatively straightforward-given that Steam for regular desktop gaming has been on the OS since 2010.
During a session at WWDC, Apple and Valve confirmed they’ve been working together for nearly a year to bring SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS. Apple’s broad embrace of VR this week shows that the company has had virtual reality support on its roadmap for quite some time.
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