I also found this excellent YouTube video of a guy who took it even further than I did (and he failed too). I tried it and failed (and I’m a professional software engineer). The problem is the Quest 2 PC app won’t install on your machine. And you more than likely own a Meta headset as well since they had a 78% market share in Q4 2021 (which has only gone up since then). This was the real nail in the coffin for me as I’m a Quest 2 owner. So it’s not going to be a good gaming machine. You’re really not taking advantage of Macs hardware when running something like Parallels.And even if you could get it to work there are still 2 other problems. It’s complicated, but it has to do with virtualization and drivers. It’s also great virtualization software, a joy to work with, unlike UTM which I also tried (although UTM is FOSS so I can’t really complain about free software).Īnyway, a Windows VM also doesn’t work. But their installer had me with a working Windows VM in under an hour and hid all the complicated technical details from me.

Now it is surprisingly easy to get a Windows VM running using Parallels. If you’re like me you’re probably thinking no problem, I’ll just set up a VM via Parallels or UTM and run SteamVR through a Windows VM. I’d imagine this will change in the future as Apple Silicon matures and VR explodes in popularity. It was a very niche market to dump resources into coding an Apple Silicon specific solution into. Plus, only 4% of Steam users were on a Mac and only 1% of them were using SteamVR. Why? It probably had to do with Apple’s move to Apple Silicon complicating development. This fails because SteamVR dropped support for MacOS a couple years ago. No need for complicated virtual machine setups. So the first thing you might try to do is take something like a Valve Index and run it straight from the Mac. SteamVR Doesn’t Currently Have Mac Support Without further ado, here’s why it doesn’t work. But, I also think this situation is temporary as VR explodes in popularity and Apple enters the VR space. I’m going to tell you why so that you don’t waste time on this. Unfortunately, as of this writing () it flat out doesn’t work.

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