The Khronos Group Launches Vulkan 1.2
Image Credit: The Khronos Group The next revision of the Vulkan API is now available. Vulkan 1.2 has a final specification alongside multiple drivers that pass their conformance tests. Five...
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The Khronos Group Ratifies and Releases OpenXR 1.0
The Khronos Group released OpenXR 0.9 provisional at GDC back in March. We reported on the story when it happened. At the time, several industry players voiced their support...
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The Khronos Group Releases OpenXR 0.90 (Provisional)
At the Games Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Khronos Group has published the first, provisional release of the augmented reality and virtual reality API: OpenXR 0.90. The goal is to allow…
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EWC 2019: Vulkan Safety Critical (SC) Working Group Created
The Khronos Group, the industry body that maintains OpenGL, OpenCL, EGL, glTF, Vulkan, OpenXR, and several other standards, has announced the Vulkan Safety Critical (SC) Working Group at Embedded...
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The Khronos Group at SIGGRAPH 2018
SIGGRAPH 2018 is a huge computer graphics expo that occurs in a seemingly random host city around North America. (Asia has a sister event, called SIGGRAPH Asia, which…
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The Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3
Vulkan 1.0 released a little over two years ago. The announcement, with conformant drivers, conformance tests, tools, and patch for The Talos Principle, made...
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The Khronos Group Releases SYCL 1.2.1
The specification for SYCL 1.2.1, which is based on OpenCL 1.2, has been finalized and released on the Khronos website. The describe it as a major update over the previous standard, SYCL…
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The Khronos Group Expands Presence in China
The Khronos Group has added a couple of new partners from China: The China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (CAICT) and Tencent. The former is a research institute for China’s Ministry…
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The Khronos Group Releases OpenVX 1.2 Conformance Tests
OpenVX is an API that enables computer vision in a range of applications, from gesture tracking to surveillance to robotics. This version includes the neural network nodes (convolution, deconvolution, etc.) as well…
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The Khronos Group Releases OpenGL 4.6
While Vulkan has been getting a lot of mindshare recently, OpenGL is still in active development. This release, OpenGL 4.6, adds a bunch of extensions into the core specification, making them more…
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Blender glTF 2.0 Exporter Published
As we reported about a month ago, The Khronos Group has finalized glTF 2.0, which is a 3D format designed for whole scenes. Since then, Khronos have...
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The Khronos Group Finalizes glTF 2.0
The Khronos Group has finalized the glTF 2.0 specification, and they recommend that interested parties integrate this 3D scene format into their content pipeline...
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Podcast #451 – New Surface Pro, Analog Keyboards, Water Cooled PSUs and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #451 - 05/25/17 Join us for talk about the wew Surface Pro, analog keyboards, water cooled PSUs and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still...
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Follow-up: Neil Trevett and Tom Olson from Khronos Group Discuss OpenCL and Vulkan Roadmap
Last week, we reported that OpenCL’s roadmap would be merging into Vulkan, and OpenCL would, starting at some unspecified time in the future, be based “on...
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Breaking: OpenCL Merging Roadmap into Vulkan
Update (May 18 @ 4pm EDT): A few comments across the internet believes that the statements from The Khronos Group were inaccurately worded, so I…
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Khronos Group Published Finalized OpenCL 2.2 & SPIR-V 1.2
Aligning with the start of the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) 2017 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Khronos Group has published the finalized specification for OpenCL 2.2 and SPIR-V 1.2. The…
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GDC 2017: zSpace Joins OpenXR Working Group
About a year before I joined PC Perspective, I acquired a degree in Education, which involved teaching at a local high school. Even though that was just five years after graduating high…
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GDC 2017: The Khronos Group (re-)Announces OpenXR
While the Vulkan update headlines the Khronos Group’s presence at GDC 2017, they also re-announced their VR initiative, now called OpenXR. This specification wraps around the individual...
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