Oculus Rift creator named MacBook «too weak" for the head-mounted display
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
"Father" head-mounted display Palmer Lucky said he believes Apple computers are not sufficiently productive to work with the Oculus Rift. The statement was made at the E3 2015 trade show, during an interview with IGN gaming publications.
Palmer Lucky explained to reporters why augmented reality helmet Oculus Rift was no support for "apple" computers. The main cause of Lucky called them "too weak" stuffing, and in particular - MacBook laptops.
Lucky Palmer, CEO of Oculus VRThe current MacBook graphics processors are not nearly meet the minimum requirements for Oculus.
Lucky said that the helmet Oculus guaranteed will not work on the MacBook, and in the foreseeable future the situation will not change. According to the head of Oculus VR, as Apple will improve the performance of their PC, Mac machine will support Oculus. Palmer Lucky said that his team definitely wants to augmented reality helmet works on all Apple devices.
In May this year, the chief architect of Oculus Rift Ataman said Vinstok
That the company will not yet work on support for OS X and Linux, as well concentrate on Windows. However Vinstok unveiled the minimum system requirements Oculus Rift: not weaker processor Intel Core i5-4590, graphics card based on Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290, 8 GB of RAM, two USB 3.0 standard, and HDMI-out 1.3.The new version of the Oculus Rift It was presented last weekOn the eve of E3 conference. The creators of the head-mounted display device announced output in the first quarter of 2016. Note that at the beginning of this year, Apple received a patent for the creation of head-mounted display.