Someone has posted a video on YouTube showing VMWare's coming 3D graphics acceleration support in action (video after the jump). VMWare's Mac virtualization software, dubbed Fusion, was announced last last year and is currently in a beta testing phase. The video is amateurish, but provides a glimpse of things to come and VMWare has acknowledged that it's not a fake.
VMWare and Parallels, the two major players in the Mac virtualization market, have both promised support for Windows 3D graphics acceleration in the next versions of their respective products, but this the first time anyone has seen it.
According to VMWare's blog post on the subject, the video in question is of an internal beta so the final release may still be a ways off, but regardless of when this build makes its way to the market, this is certainly good news for Mac gaming fans. Unfortunately most of the games in the video are somewhat dated (Duke Nuke ‘Em?!), it'd be nice to see how some newer, more graphics intensive games fare.
But for the time being here's the drool-worthy video.
[via Ars Technica]
