genuinely my favourite phone - no controller addons can match up to just... sliding out a controller and playing crash bandicoot on a train.

anyway, yes. pleasantly surprised by how competent the state of GPU acceleration is for macOS VM software.

I'll go back to using Wine/Crossover to play flat games, but, this wasn't the worst VR experience I've had.

my laptop is about to die but, yes, it does work

OK RIGHT. For anyone in future stumbling upon this thread: check if you have ever disabled System Integrity Protection (e.g. if you use yabai as a window manager).

Turn it back on and VMWare will start working again

... still crashing. lets see if updating my laptop resolves this...

in fairness to VMWare, i do wonder what this giant No symbol means

neat, the entire thing crashes on boot

(big thank you to this post from someone who has already gone ahead and moved a VM from Parallels -> VMware chrisdooks.com/2024/05/15/i...)

so: ALVR is connecting to SteamVR, but I get a black screen in the headset. I'll give VMWare Fusion a shot...

first crash of steamvr! give it up for the first crash

time to go make some chamomile tea

because I have extreme doubts USB passthrough will work, the plan of attack is:

1. steamvr
2. virtual desktop or ALVR
3. streaming this to a Quest 1 i have hanging around
4. finding a VR game that uses DX11 (given Parallels has no DX12 translation)
5. pray