I am close to buying an SR6, but I do not have a PC. Will I run into issues with Mac recognizing the device. Do the drivers work with MacOS?
It’s just a USB serial port to the computer it’s attached to.
The issue is whether or not you can find software to control the device over that virtual serial port on MacOS, which is a closed ecosystem.
I’d suggest you just search this forum first.
Khrull has software that runs on OS X here…
I’m pretty sure this player works for Mac
Haven’t tried it but do look around it might do the trick:
EDIT: yeah just saw the post above me, this is XTPlayer from Khrull.
SR6 usually uses an ESP32 chip which uses a standard UART/usb interface. MacOS supports this by default so no issue there. You can even use WiFi with the ESP32. The issue comes when looking for software. yes XTP has a MacOS build but I have not actually tested it out on a real mac so Maybe try it out first to see if it will load up media and such.
As far as im aware of theres not really any Mac software that does TCode natively. Theres some websites that may work in Chrome but as far as native software XTP is it. You may get Initface to work on Mac with TCode. Last I heard its single axis only.
If you have a quest you could connect to XTP with it and watch VR content.
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Thanks for the responses everyone! I bought the sr6 and am awaiting arrival.
Based on the responses and research that I’ve done, I am leaning towards buying a mini PC that runs windows.
I don’t want to deal with all of the workarounds and could probably put it to use. I was looking at a Beelink SER8. Think that’s enough computing power to run multifunscripter, VAM , HD video and VR on occasion? If not, what should I look into?
FYI.. I have a newer Mac (non Intel processor), so boot camp is not an option.
That mini-PC will be plenty good enough for video. I’m not sure about VaM. It might do fine, though that could depend upon the scene complexity.
Given the price points and the alternatives, it’s worth trying. If it can’t do VaM effectively, the only viable alternative would be a desktop PC with a dedicated graphics card. Strix Halo would be a good integrated graphics option, but it’s thin on the ground right now. Just as graphics cards are right now.