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jenza
Up and Coming
September 12, 2013

Hydra/STEM mac drivers?

I was just checking out the kickstarter page for the new STEM page.

Up till now I have been putting off buying a hydra because of the lack of mac drivers, however according to the kickstarter page there seems to be mac support at least in the SDK.

I was wondering if there is now a mac driver for the hydra seeing as the two devices are largely identical aside from wires so considering the STEM delivers in july, I was considering buying a hydra at least until the wireless ones come out.

    7 replies

    daatgaming
    Participant
    September 12, 2013
    I want mac drivers too. Ones that actually WORK. I've only tried the unity plugin port, though, so maybe their OS X SDK is better... I still want a working plug-in, though.
    philmccarty
    Up and Coming
    September 13, 2013
    I've got it working in Unity pretty painlessly, are you using the .DLL from the forum?

    http://sixense.com/forum/vbulletin/showthread.php?4343-Offical-Sixense-Untiy-Plugin
    jenzaAuthor
    Up and Coming
    September 13, 2013
    "philmccarty" wrote:
    I've got it working in Unity pretty painlessly, are you using the .DLL from the forum?

    http://sixense.com/forum/vbulletin/showthread.php?4343-Offical-Sixense-Untiy-Plugin


    so are you saying that this is basically just plug and play for mac users?

    having held off buying one, every report i have seen is windows users with the hydra on account of there being no mac driver.
    Prelucid
    Up and Coming
    September 13, 2013
    Unfortunately there's no tool that lets you set up profiles or individual program mapping for the Hydra's movement features on the Mac. I've asked for one and no progress... so it's really up to the developer to include support... it's easy for Unity.
    Viktor: Yes, he was wrong. But just as some things can be right and useless at the same time, can't something be wrong... and priceless?
    philmccarty
    Up and Coming
    September 13, 2013
    I don't want to say it's -easy-, but, I installed Unity, went to the forums, grabbed the DLL, and looked at the sample source code, and got it tracking position, rotation, and buttons all in the same day. (Disclosure: I do have a year or two's worth of experience with Javascript).

    (OS X)

    "jenza" wrote:
    "philmccarty" wrote:
    I've got it working in Unity pretty painlessly, are you using the .DLL from the forum?

    http://sixense.com/forum/vbulletin/showthread.php?4343-Offical-Sixense-Untiy-Plugin


    so are you saying that this is basically just plug and play for mac users?

    having held off buying one, every report i have seen is windows users with the hydra on account of there being no mac driver.
    jfaulken
    New Participant
    October 9, 2013
    I sent an email from the sixesnse contact page, but I figured I'd ask here: since the sixense forums are down there's no way to get the mac dll right now. Does anyone have a direct link? Thanks!

    - John
    Anonymous
    October 10, 2013
    Isn't the DLL in the sixense package on the asset store?
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