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THE NEW iMAGES: LITERAL GAME-CHANGERS

Apple has made a lot of impressive announcements relating to sweeping changes of its iMac line. At its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the company revealed that Valve’s Steam VR platform was set to hit Apple’s desktop computers. It even showed, running on one of the recently-released new iMacs, a VR demo of an official Star Wars experience where, with HTC Vive accessories, TIE fighters were controlled and Darth Vader was summoned.

It’s fair to say that, historically, Macs have tended to fall behind the Windows competition for gaming in general, let alone VR experiences. Last year, Palmer Luckey, who founded the Facebook-owned VR headset purveyor Oculus Rift, to support Oculus Rift VR experiences. However, Apple has packed a staggering amount of power into the new

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