

The guy in the video above explains how he got past this message too before giving up (this is where I gave up). If you still experience issues, contact Oculus Support.”

Please restart your computer and try running Oculus Setup again. When you get past the previous error you’ll get an error saying “Restart Computer Sorry we encountered an error during installation. I highly suggest you watch this if this is something you’re planning to attempt.Įven if you get past the “Oculus requires a CPU with SSE 4.2 support” error message (which the video above explains how to do, and I was able to do) there are many more errors coming after that. I also found this excellent YouTube video of a guy who took it even further than I did (and he failed too). I tried it and failed (and I’m a professional software engineer). The problem is the Quest 2 PC app won’t install on your machine. And you more than likely own a Meta headset as well since they had a 78% market share in Q4 2021 (which has only gone up since then). This was the real nail in the coffin for me as I’m a Quest 2 owner. So it’s not going to be a good gaming machine.

Plus, only 4% of Steam users were on a Mac and only 1% of them were using SteamVR. Why? It probably had to do with Apple’s move to Apple Silicon complicating development.

This fails because SteamVR dropped support for MacOS a couple years ago. No need for complicated virtual machine setups. So the first thing you might try to do is take something like a Valve Index and run it straight from the Mac. SteamVR Doesn’t Currently Have Mac Support Without further ado, here’s why it doesn’t work. But, I also think this situation is temporary as VR explodes in popularity and Apple enters the VR space. I’m going to tell you why so that you don’t waste time on this. Unfortunately, as of this writing () it flat out doesn’t work.
