I’m really curious to see the first impressions (I know it will be a work in progress, but would be nice to know what I can expect on day one with Vulkan).

Really? lol….

Any news about the progress with Vulkan ?

Will eGPUs be supported with Metal? This is an issue in the Mac community as all Mac laptops (unless upgraded with Vega graphics) and Mac Minis do not have sufficiently powerful graphics cards to run X Plane at acceptable frame rates. Currently X Plane recognises eGPUs but does appear to use any hardware acceleration running at single figure FPS.

Great news!! I am a pimax user and I would be very interested to buy another gpu for more frames.

Yes I think Lamiar are looking at a chicken and egg scenario when it comes to their seemingly reluctant support for VR.
Sure they want to put most resources toward development the majority will benefit from but when pointing to the limited VR users it is a case of the development need to be there for people to adopt it rather than the other way around.
For example I would purchase a HMD just for Xplane but currently the best HMD’s are not well supported by poor Xplane performance, especially wider FOV headsets.
If I knew Xplane would run well on the new gen of HMD’s I would purchase one and I dare say there are many other people who feel the same.

Congrats on the progress with Vulkan. As VR will require a revisit when being ported could I ask that you take a look at natively supporting headsets with canted displays. I previously emailed Chris about this but with more headsets appearing the issue is going to come more to the fore. We first had the Pimax 5k and 8k and now Valve have released the Index with a similar method of increasing the field of view. The open Vr function call GetEyeToHeadTransform returns a matrix which includes the rotation. It’s likely already called in xplane to get the users IPD but the rotation part of the matrix has not been implemented.

Having this natively supported would remove the need for costly compatibility modes.

Thanks for your efforts

Fergus

Ben’s been talking publicly about stutter-free being a long-term goal for a while now, and Vulkan & Metal finally give us the tools to get there.