Metal 2 game template?

The XCode beta has a Metal game template -- is that Metal or Metal 2? What are the big differences programming wise between the two?


Thanks

Bob

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Hello Bob


I believe that Metal 2 is more like "Metal extended" than "Metal changed". It has many new features, like support for VR, argument buffers and other stuff they described in WWDC17 presentations (https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc2017/), but you don't have to worry about being incompatible with "older" Metal code or some such. And I guess you can add new code making use of new features to "old" Metal project at any time.


Michal (but not the one doing Metal 2 introduction video at WWDC)