Remember SteamVR on Mac? Nobody else did, either, so it’s gone now.
SteamVR is dead on macOS now, and that should come as a surprise to no one. Indeed, you may be surprised to know it even existed.
As spotted by UploadVR on Friday morning, developer Valve relayed the news in a terse Steam announcement, as though even writing the update was more time than it wanted to spend on Apple’s desktop operating system. (For that matter, it couldn’t even be bothered to get the name of the operating system correct.) On the bright side, you can still use SteamVR either with legacy builds or through Boot Camp and apps like Parallels.
Still, it’s a sad end for a feature that was originally so promising that Apple even made it part of the WWDC keynote presentation in 2017. It was supposedly proof of Apple’s commitment to embracing better graphical performance. After that literal brief moment in the spotlight, though, news about SteamVR vanished as swiftly as AirPower rumors.
But this isn’t really a case of macOS simply being an unpopular VR platform, although there are certainly figures for that.
