Feature Request Apple Silicon support (edit: starting with 5.22.0 and 16.0.1)

Hi, I know that Vivox doesn't support Apple Silicon. Is it in progress - is there a timeline?
thanks

 

I want to use Vivox and build for Apple Silicon too!

 

On the developer side, there will be no Mac Intel users in a near feature. So not allowing us to use Vivox on a Mac Silicon for dev is saying goodbye to Mac users. You should really consider it.
Thx.

 

This is required for continued Mac support, we already have many players on Apple Silicon.

 

Wait, are you saying that Vivox voice doesn't work on Apple Silicon devices?!!

 

Mac Silicon is the best desktop platform from Apple for gaming ever and it is replacing their Intel products. Why would you support Mac Intel and not Silicon when Intel's life is over at Apple? Does that actually mean you are slowly dropping support for Apple desktop?

 

Agreed with guys, our game as well has a lot of apple silicone players , and they are struggling without vivox voice chat. We need it so bad.

 

We are also in need of mac m1 support! Hope you guys have this in consideration.

 

Definitely agree. Having to rely on Rosetta, or to say goodbye to mac players is not an ideal solution.
I'm tired of this "Apple users are only <insert here a number between 1 and 7>% of all players, who cares about them ?".
It's just a self-fulfilling prophecy, and you're are just giving us a reason to use either another voice chat solution, or another game engine.

 

Is this the reason why I get DllNotFoundException: libVivoxNative assembly error when using Vivox SDK on my MacBook with Apple Silicon?

 

Is this still the case?

 

Hi, we run into the same issue, would you please consider supporting this?

 

This seems like a pretty necessary thing to support for continued use of Vivox for cross-platform voice chat...

 

Adding to the list... We need Apple silicon support too.

 

there are good number of devs working from home on macs, +1 for Apple Silicon support

 

have to download rosseta(intel) version of the editor to test it(in editor) otherwise it throws error for dll missing and stuff

 

wow i cant believe this. Please explain why ???
How many users need to complain ?

 

Just use photon voice, honestly.

 

Please!!! My Team needs Vivox M1

 

It's unbelievable that you still haven't even planned

 

I purchased M1 Ultra for appstore release. But Rosetta... It is so sad.

 

we need this feature

 

Apple ARM support (M1, M2, MX...) is needed, It is very concerning that we need to request support for this feature.


The whole mac ecosystem will transition to the MX platform within a year and rosetta will be deprecated, so unless unity is abandoning the mac platform overall, it's a necessity.

 

Seriously? Come on Unity, you need to think farther into the future. This thread was created in Jan 2022 and still no support as of April 2023... what the... who's running that place.

 

This is pretty absurd still - I wonder if they'll skip Vision Pro support too...

 

I have no clue why this isn't supported, you're literally just writing off all apple players by not supporting this. In 1-2 years from now almost every mac user will be a silicon mac user. Already right now more then 60% of our Mac users are on silicon chips.

 

Fix this asap, what a absurd answer that you're not planning to support the tech which all apple users will be using in 1-2 years from now and literally already 60% of our mac user base is on silicon chips....

 

Isn’t Vivox the service that was urging developers to drop Linux support because they couldn’t bother to support it?

And you’re hoping they will support silicon when they have clearly said they have no plans for it?

 

Just surprised that Unity purchased Vivox and isn't simply dictating to them that they support Apple Silicon.

It seems crazy now that Apple is getting so cozy with Unity due to the Epic disputes that they would let any of their services simply not support the platforms...

 

Don't believe marketing.

Unity is half assing Apple Silicon support in many aspects, a service not supporting it at all is pretty on brand.

 

still waiting for it

 

Please make it happen...As it really affect m1 user's workflow and have to find other alternatives

 

Photon Voice supports Silicon, is low cost, easy to setup and works great.

 

Nice one Nick, that's great news!

Ben

 

Nice to hear it Nick.
I got a DllNotFoundException error trying to use Vivox on my M2 macbook, and I ended up on this thread.
I'll be waiting upcoming news.

 

This forum thread started in January of 2022. It took this long to simply get a reply that silicon support was finally coming at all. You would have to expect that it doesn’t actually work. There is clearly some high level thinking amongst Vivox that silicon isn’t worth bothering with. (In spite of being part of a cross platform game engine. Go figure.)

 

EDIT: I managed to install v16! See below for details.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I'm still unable to get this working on Apple Silicon.

I'm using Unity 2022.3.12 on MacBook Pro M2. My Package Manager says the latest available Vivox is 15.1.210100-pre.1, which was released on Sep 18th 2023. I was expecting the latest version to be released sometime in Dec 2023.

From what I can find out in the documentation, it looks like I should be using v16, but I'm unable to find that anywhere?

Any help here greatly appreciated. I've never had this much trouble updating packages... I feel like I'm missing something obvious...

Cheers,
- Justin

EDIT: For anyone else having trouble, try first removing pre v16 Vivox package, and then adding it by name using "com.unity.services.vivox". This will install v16 now.

If you're like me, you'll probably also need to delete the previous Assets/Samples/Vivox folder and update all your code according to https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/vivox-unity/manual/Unity/v16-upgrade-guide