How to Use an Xbox One Controller on a Mac: I'm pretty partial to the Xbox One controller, and I thought to my self: 'Self, wouldn't you like to play your Mac games with the Xbox one controller??' So, I decided to look into how to do this, and it's actually very simple to do. You can get th. The Xbox One controller works great with a Mac, but it requires a bit of extra setup. Here's how to get your Xbox One controller up and running in OS X.
Gaming on a Mac is not what Apple is historically known for. However, with Apple, some traditional game interfaces and not so traditional interfaces (think HTC wands or Valve's knuckle controllers) now need to be to reap the VR/AR benefits to their fullest. To ready you for some amazing VR pilot games such as that utilize a traditional game Xbox game controller, we're here to show you how to connect one to your Mac! In the past this method only applied to the Xbox 360 controller, but the latest version of the software you'll be using also now supports the Xbox One controller.
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How to download and install the drivers We're assuming that you already own a wired Xbox controller, but if you're needing to buy, a. You'll need to connect it to your Mac using a which, sadly, isn't included. If you buy a third-party wired controller you won't have to worry about this.
Next, follow these steps. Launch Safari. Navigate to. Download the latest release of the 360Controller driver. As of this writing, the latest release is 0.16.5.
Go to your Downloads folder in Finder. Double-click the 360Controllerinstall.dmg file.
Double-click the Install360Controller.pkg that pops up in Finder. Click Continue. Again, click Continue.
Select to Agree the license agreement. Click Install. Agree to allow a restart of the computer by clicking Continue Installation. Click Restart. You can optionally have the downloaded file Moved to Trash. Upon restarting the computer start System Preferences from the dock or the menu.
Click on Xbox 360 Controllers. How to connect your Xbox 360 controller Once you've installed the drivers, you'll now logically see that there are No devices found, since we have yet to physically connect the game controller to the Mac. Plug in your controller to your Mac. If you have a current model MacBook or MacBook Pro, you'll need a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Click OK when the System Extension Blocked warning message pops up. Go into System Preferences via the dock or menu.
Click Security & Privacy. Under the General tab click the Lock at the bottom left. Enter your password and click Unlock.
Click Allow. Your Xbox wired controller should now be connected! Final thoughts I am super stoked about developers climbing aboard the VR/AR hype train. As a mere consumer of VR, I can only hope for more and more creative minds to get on board. If you're a VR/AR developer, or even better yet, a macOS VR/AR developer, what other ways can Apple help promote virtual reality on their platform? Let us know in the comments!
Updated April 2018: Updated to reflect that this method also now supports the Xbox One controller. This post may contain affiliate links.
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TUAW reader Jon emailed in the other day to ask about possible game controllers for Mac, and while we've covered this issue before,. In short, the best way to use a game controller with your Mac is just to use one of the better controllers out there: the wired version of Microsoft's Xbox 360 controller (or, if you wish, any compatible third-party version). The port on it is just a standard USB, so it should plug right into your Mac.
And in some cases that's all you need -, for example, will make use of your controller right out of the box (which is actually easier than it works on Windows, incidentally, where you need to install an official driver), and there are other games around (I've been playing in my Chrome browser quite a bit lately) that will work great right away. I haven't tried on my Mac yet, but I presume it too will work just as well. If the game you're trying to play doesn't directly support the controller, however, then things get a little more complicated.
There is for free online, and it will cover you for a lot of games that already support controller setups. But every once in a while you'll come across a game that requires you to use a keyboard, and for those times, you'll need to download a helper app, something like (from the Mac App Store). That app will let you map the Xbox 360 controller's buttons to standard mouse and keyboard functions, so you can use your controller to do anything you want. Apple seems closer than ever to actually bringing full apps to the Apple TV, and when it does, you have to think it will also create some kind of controller device (or include that functionality directly in iOS somehow).
Until then, however, Microsoft's controller works perfectly well, and with a little bit of tweaking, you can get it to do whatever you need.