Valve are cutting off SteamVR support for Macs

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Valve are cutting off SteamVR support for MacsMac’s been knifed

Mac’s been knifed

If you bought a VR kit for your Mac and planned on using SteamVR, then you are out of luck. Valve are ending VR support for MacOS, so they can “focus on Windows and Linux”. Mackers can still access legacy builds, but this means no more improvements, and no more bug-quashing.

There are ways to jack in without using SteamVR, but still. Ain’t that a kick in the teeth.

SteamVR is Valve’s software for running VR games. Not every game needs it, and you can usea tool called OpenCompositeto play SteamVR games without having SteamVR installed. I haven’t used that myself, so can’t speak to how well it works.

In brighter news, you can at leastplay Disco Elysium on Mac, thanks to a recent update. Who needs Alyx when you could be an alcoholic detective getting into arguments with your necktie?