Unity Rolls Out Vulkan Renderer In Preview Form

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unity Rolls Out Vulkan Renderer In Preview Form

Unity today rolled out their first public preview of their Vulkan renderer for this popular cross-platform game engine...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unity-Does-Vulkan-Preview

[haagch]

Why are there no comments? This is very good news because Unity is one of the most popular engines for VR content. Vulkan could give them some push to consider VR support on Linux.

Two demos for linux are here: https://plus.google.com/104339689434...ts/2CoPhJ8dhxQ

Runs on radv, the second one with some corruption, but mostly fine: https://youtu.be/GOlUBdN3UW8

[fuzz]

Why are there no comments? This is very good news because Unity is one of the most popular engines for VR content. Vulkan could give them some push to consider VR support on Linux.

Two demos for linux are here: https://plus.google.com/104339689434...ts/2CoPhJ8dhxQ

Runs on radv, the second one with some corruption, but mostly fine: https://youtu.be/GOlUBdN3UW8

Not much to say here... this is just awesome news. I think Vulkan is one of the best things to happen to linux gaming in a long time.

[efikkan]

Not much to say here... this is just awesome news. I think Vulkan is one of the best things to happen to linux gaming in a long time.

Vulkan will really start to matter when we get good games written for Vulkan, rather than these universal game engines with a wrapper around it.