{"id":86738,"date":"2016-03-04T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86738"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:20:42","slug":"the-oculus-rift-will-come-to-mac-when-apple-make-a-good-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86738-the-oculus-rift-will-come-to-mac-when-apple-make-a-good-computer","title":{"rendered":"The Oculus Rift will come to Mac when Apple make &#8220;a good computer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is up to Apple whether Oculus VR will support its Rift headset on Mac computers, founder Palmer Luckey\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/article\/93547\/oculus-palmer-luckey-will-consider-mac-support-if-apple-ever-releases-a-good-computer\" target=\"_blank\">recently told Shacknews<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they ever release a good computer, we will do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just boils down to the fact that Apple doesn\u2019t prioritise high-end GPUs,\u201c said Luckey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top-of-the-line AMD FirePro D700, and it still doesn\u2019t match our recommended specs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Apple goes back to prioritising higher-end graphics processors like they used, said Luckey, Oculus\u00a0would support Mac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, there\u2019s just not a single machine out there that supports it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luckey\u2019s\u00a0full interview is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijyBMpm2bqQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/157527-mac-might-get-oculus-rift-if-apple-ever-releases-a-good-computer.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/86734-this-weeks-best-gaming-deals-79.html\">This week\u2019s best gaming deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/86686-steam-to-charge-less-when-you-already-own-part-of-a-bundle.html\">Steam to charge less when you already own part of a bundle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/86692-ea-confirms-release-windows-for-battlefield-5-mass-effect-andromeda-and-titanfall-2.html\">EA confirms release windows for Battlefield 5, Mass Effect Andromeda and Titanfall 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/86682-mobile-games-that-offer-a-console-experience.html\">Mobile games that offer a console experience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey has slated the Apple Mac and its lacklustre graphical performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":86740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[959,1085,1594,6049,6050,6477],"class_list":["post-86738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-hardware-2","tag-mac","tag-oculus-rift","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}