Where did Apple get a computer powerful enough to run such a demo? (Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey famously spurned the Mac last year.) Well, it turns out the whole demo was running on a new iMac, and there'll be a couple of ways for an iMac to reach that level of potency.įor one, there's the just-announced $4,999 iMac Pro, which will be available with AMD's new Radeon Vega graphics and up to a ridiculous new 18-core CPU. It showed off an official Star Wars virtual reality demo (by Lucasfilm's ILMxLab) on stage, one where a presenter used the HTC Vive headset and motion controllers to create a VR scene, manipulating TIE fighters and summoning Darth Vader. But it just announced it will natively support all of those things at the 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC) in San Jose.Īpple is now working with Valve to bring the Steam VR platform to its desktop computers, it announced. They're not words you'd usually expect Apple to utter during the Mac portion of a press conference - the company has all but ignored desktop gaming for years.
