Archives for Khronos Group
GDC: Khronos Reveals API Updates and New Working Group at Game Developers Conference
Consortium releases Vulkan features, WebGL 2.0 and new OpenXR working group; group hosts series of events for the developer community.
Apple’s WebGPU Standard Proposal—Aiming at Common Access to Explicit Graphics
Apple’s Webkit team is proposing a new industry group to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the web—one that can develop a standard API that leverages modern GPU features.
Khronos Places OpenGL and OpenGL ES Conformance Tests into Open Source
Developer community can contribute to test development and evolution; open source 3D API implementations can freely use tests to increase quality.
Group behind OpenGL Aims to Establish VR (Virtual Reality) Standards Initiative
Khronos Group aims to establish VR industry standard to help create greater end-user options, portability between solutions and accelerate adoption of virtual reality.
Cinema 4D maker MAXON joins the open industry standard Khronos Group
Developer of Cinema 4D brings 3D know-how to international consortium for open standards. By joining the Khronos Group, MAXON reasserts its ongoing commitment to support the development of open standards that enable the authoring and acceleration of 3D graphics, games and media on a wide variety of platforms and devices.
SIG: Khronos Invites Industry Participation to Create Safety Critical Graphics and Compute Standards
New ‘Safety Critical’ working group to adapt OpenGL ES and Vulkan APIs
for markets requiring system certification – including avionics and automotive.
Metal for OS X Good, But Developers Need Flexibility and Options
Architosh speaks with Neil Trevett, President of Khronos Group, on matters of Vulkan in the tailwind of the Metal for OS X announcement made earlier this month.
Khronos speaks to Architosh about the new Vulkan Graphics API: What it Means
In this special feature Architosh digs into the main elements behind the new Vulkan graphics and compute GPU API in a discussion with The Khronos Group president Neil Trevett to get at what all this means for computing and graphics going forward.
Five Things Apple users might want to know about the new Vulkan Graphics API
We discuss five issues about Vulkan and its impact on Apple in both desktop and mobile markets, and this article is chock full of info not yet contained in our other Vulkan reports.
GDC: Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.1 Provisional Specification for Public Review
OpenCL C++ Kernel Language significantly boosts programmer productivity, plus new SPIR-V common intermediate language used by both OpenCL 2.1 and Vulkan
The Future of Graphics: Introducing Vulkan—Heir Apparent to OpenGL / OpenGL ES
Khronos Group, the stewards of computer industry open standards like OpenGL and WebGL, have announced the Vulkan, a next-generation graphics API system and replacement to industry-standard and leading OpenGL and OpenGL ES.
Khronos Releases OpenGL ES 3.1 Uses Royalty-Free 3D Graphics API
Able to used on virtually all smartphones and tablets, OpenGL ES 3.1 adds advanced 3D features and integrated GPU computing.
Khronos Releases OpenGL ES 3.1–Advances 3D graphics and integrated GPU computing on mobile devices
Apple’s market-leading iPhones and iPads just got a little bit better–in the near future. New OpenGL ES 3.1 has been released and iOS and other mobile operating systems will be able to tap its power in the new feature
Mac CAD / 3D Tidbits: Khronos Group News, Parasolid and Vectorworks Book news
Mac and iOS CAD and 3D News: We have news on a new Japanese Vectorworks Architect book focused on BIM, plus news on Parasolid’s latest modeling kernel and news on the Khronos Group’s upcoming announcements
SIG: Khronos releases OpenGL 4.4 spec at International Computer Graphics Conference
Khronos Group advanced OpenGL specification to version 4.4 — adds Bindless Texture Extension for up to 10x improvement in performance