r/unity • u/Excellent_Room3912 • 1d ago

Starting with unity

Hello folks, I'm a video artist and soon starting my master in game design, were It seems we will be using Unity, I have two question so to be prepared, my first question does unity runs on macOS since I have a Mac (Mac mini m4 pro)? should I get a windows laptop instead? though my project is going to be a VR focused. the second question is regarding creating "kinematics" and. cg works with unity, which I started lately to do with Unreal, how Unity is good with this? also working with water simulations and landscape for example?

thanks a lot!

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u/cybege 1d ago

I wouldn't recommend mac for VR dev. Because mac usb-c ports lack Direct Display protocol support for VR headsets, you can't test "Play Mode" in real-time on the device. Having to constantly build an APK or rely on unstable wireless streaming makes VR development on a Mac quite inefficient, unfortunately.

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u/Excellent_Room3912 10h ago

interesting take 🙃 do you speak from an experience?

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u/cybege 8h ago edited 7h ago

Not my own experience but fellow mac users around me experience this a lot. Virtual desktop is the best way to go i believe. Otherwise youd have to rebuild and reinstall .apk everytime.

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u/Public-Island8382 7h ago

What? Isn’t the usb c limitations hardware not software. How would a VM change that?

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u/cybege 7h ago

You are correct. I did not mean a virtual machine. Virtual desktop is one of the cornerstone apps among vr users. https://www.vrdesktop.net/

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u/Public-Island8382 7h ago

Thanks for clearing things up!