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Tag: OpenGL

Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon shows progress in graphics drivers

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2:02 pmTuesday, May 10, 20222 Comments

Over the past weekend, exciting progress was made in persuading 3D graphics to work in Linux on Apple Silicon …

Apple joins Blender Development Fund

Thursday, October 14, 2021 3:44 pm5 Comments

The Blender Foundation today announced that Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support…

Why Apple’s macOS Mojave requires Metal – and deprecates OpenGL

Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:04 am9 Comments

In order to run the new macOS Mojave, Macs must have graphics hardware capable of supporting Metal…

Some game developers hint at abandoning the Mac as Apple deprecates OpenGL

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 9:28 amWednesday, June 6, 201812 Comments

Apple’s move to cut OpenGL after macOS 10.14 Mojave and pushing for the use of its own Metal graphics tech…

Apple deprecates OpenGL across all OSes; urges developers to use Metal

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 1:45 pmTuesday, June 5, 201818 Comments

Apple is deprecating support for what are now their legacy graphics and compute APIs…

Khronos Group’s Vulkan GPU API is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple

Monday, February 26, 2018 12:01 pmMonday, February 26, 20184 Comments

macOS has old, and slow, OpenGL drivers, and iOS supports OpenGL ES, the OpenGL subset designed for embedded systems…

Apple exploring 360-degree full panoramic VR headset

Monday, October 16, 2017 5:32 pmNo Comments

Apple is looking beyond augmented reality in the long run, as a new patent filing suggests…

Pixelmator Pro video reveals impressive UX and UI ahead of upcoming launch

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:25 pm24 Comments

Early last month, Pixelmator announced the upcoming release of Pixelmator Pro, its latest app…

Pixelmator Pro will be all the Photoshop that most Mac users need

Tuesday, September 5, 2017 4:29 pmTuesday, September 5, 201711 Comments

This is great news: The Pixelmator team has announced plans to launch Pixelmator Pro for Mac…

Pixelmator Pro coming to Mac this fall with all-new single-window interface, machine learning-enhanced image editing, and more

Tuesday, September 5, 2017 9:16 am14 Comments

The Pixelmator Team today unveiled Pixelmator Pro, a brand new Mac app that redefines image editing on the Mac…

Apple positions Metal as part of new 3D graphics standard for Web

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 1:28 pmWednesday, February 8, 20173 Comments

Apple’s WebKit team on Tuesday proposed a new Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium…

Affinity Photo easily surpasses Pixelmator

Sunday, July 19, 2015 12:04 pm26 Comments

When I learned that another new photo editing application was coming for Macintosh…

Affinity Photo image editing app for Mac: ‘Highly recommended’

Saturday, July 11, 2015 1:01 pmSaturday, July 11, 201520 Comments

Over the last month or two I have been looking at…

Why Apple’s new Metal for Mac is a big deal for gamers

Thursday, June 11, 2015 3:44 pmThursday, June 11, 20156 Comments

There were a lot of big announcements this week at Apple’s annual WWDC event…

Eight hidden improvements for your Mac in OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 3:16 pmTuesday, June 9, 201529 Comments

During Yesterday’s keynote presentation on the upcoming OS X El Capitan…

Metal for Mac is so huge, bye-bye Mac Pro

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:31 pm47 Comments

Mac users rejoice!

After 25-years as a Windows-only developer, Serif unveils its first ever Mac product – free beta available now

Saturday, July 26, 2014 1:01 pmSaturday, July 26, 201471 Comments

Serif has announced it will imminently release its first ever product for Mac…

Inside Metal: How Apple plans to unlock the A7 chip’s hidden graphics performance

Monday, June 16, 2014 11:30 amMonday, June 16, 201419 Comments

Among the surprises that Apple unveiled at WWDC 2014 is the company’s…

Apple’s Metal to take flight in Apple TV?

Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:27 am9 Comments

Metal is a graphics API for iOS, squarely targeted at…

Brotens intros new Mac-only lighting CAD software ‘Illuminando’

Sunday, April 20, 2014 8:08 amSaturday, April 19, 20149 Comments

The most advanced lighting calculation application in the world is Mac-only…

AMD FirePro GPUs deliver unprecedented levels of performance for Apple’s Mac Pro

Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:31 pmThursday, December 26, 20133 Comments

Delivers unprecedented levels of performance for the new Mac Pro…

New in OS X Mavericks: OpenGL 4.1 brings increased performance, more features

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:00 amTuesday, September 10, 20138 Comments

One of the most-anticipated features in OS X Mavericks is OpenGL 4.1 support…

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