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johnrs

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Jul 7, 2008
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Hi all

just thought I would post a couple of videos to show VR on the Oculus Rift s and that you can run VR with some good results

Thanks

Can you connect the Oculus Rift S to a 2019 16" MacBook Pro ?:

16" Macbook Pro Oculus Rift s Game Play Performance:
 
Hi All

I have posted before about running the Oculus Rift S on the 16" MBP and while the Oculus App says the laptop is below spec, games do run well. Just been playing The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners which has just come out.

I dont have FPS but the game is more than playable

 
@johnrs Thanks for the posting! Have you tried Oculus Quest via Oculus Link as well? Would be interesting to know if the 5500 is capable to run it.
I tried it with Mac Pro 7.1/8-Core/580X. Its generally running, but with a noticeable much too slow frame rate.
 
Thanks for posting this OP, personally I have never tried any VR games before but glad to know that the hardware is able to handle it. :)
 
This is an old thread but I recently got an Oculus Quest and tried using it via the link cable with my iMac Pro 10C/Vega 64 in Boot Camp. It runs flawlessly in even the most demanding VR games at high settings like Alyx. It even runs well wirelessly with Virtual Desktop!!

I did install the custom AMD drivers from bootcampdrivers.com but the stock apple provided ones also work well enough.

I installed all the games to a cheap external SSD (steam and oculus make this easy to do) to save space with a minimal bootcamp partition size.

then I tried the same thing with my 16” MBP with the 5500M 8gb graphics. It also works just as well as the iMac Pro - alyx is totally playable - but with games at lower settings. Still. It works with no other notable compromises. The 5500M ia close to ballpark of a desktop 580 so it meets PCVR specs.

I’ve been astonished by this. It’s a whole new world.

Arm based macs in future may not include boot camp but that’s WAY off for pro level macs... and gaming PCS are getting quite cheap anyway. I don’t think boot camp is going away anytime soon. This is a great time to try PCVR on a Modern Mac with Boot camp.
 
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