We've got some exciting news to share for Android developers! We are partnering with Google and The Forge to work on optimizing our Vulkan Mobile rendering backend. This work will also benefit non-mobile devices godotengine.org/article/collab…

Today's release of Vulkan 1.3.274 provides new extensions to enable encoding of H.264 and H.265 video streams providing a standardized, seamless, low-overhead, and highly controllable way to produce H.264 and H.265 video via hardware accelerators. More: khr.io/12j

.Khronos Group has finished Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265. An FFmpeg implementation is under way! khronos.org/blog/khronos-f…

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Metaverse Standards Forum's 3D Asset Interoperability Using USD and glTF Working Group had a fantastic year! Catch up on their activities in this 2023 Year in Review: metaverse-standards.org/news/blog/3d-a… #USD #glTF glTF 3D Alliance for OpenUSD #FBX #animation #metaverse #interactivity #physics

We are excited to announce our Keynote speaker for IWOCL 2024 - Karol Herbst from Red Hat. Karol will present on Rusticl, an OpenCL API implementation written in rust for Mesa, as compute for the Linux desktop! Join us: iwocl.org

Time is Running Out! The LunarG 2024 Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK survey closes on Monday, February 26, 2024 (GMT-7). We need your feedback to help drive Vulkan ecosystem investments. Take the survey now! surveymonkey.com/r/KTBZDCM

#BEHOLD! #ThePolys Class of 2023 #enshrined in Looking Glass #Holographic displays. Paige Dansinger - Metaverse Museum Builder Micaela Mantegna @abogamer.bsky.social Neil Trevett and ENGAGE XR Holdings PLC are being honored. Seven winners in nominated categories will be revealed LIVE on Sun 3/3 with an all-xr-star cast hosted by Julie Smithson

OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-3.…

The OpenCL Working Group has released version 3.0.16 of the OpenCL specifications, including a new provisional cl_khr_kernel_clock extension and final semaphore and external memory extensions. Get the specs here: registry.khronos.org/OpenCL/ #OpenCL

glTF interactivity extension open for public comment! khr.io/13x. This is a key milestone - alongside upcoming physics, audio, and external reference extensions - making glTF ready for a new class of applications - and the metaverse...

It was a homecoming of a week in which I was able to reconnect with a great group of technicians that are carrying the torch for #glTF and driving features that will make our ubiquitous 3D format even more powerful and useful! And I took a victory lap about that onstage

Great start to ACM SIGGRAPH 2024! Standing room only at the Khronos Fast Forward - everything you never dared to ask about Khronos standards in 60 minutes or less. Many more Khronos sessions during the week! khronos.org/events/siggrap…

Khronos' has issued a #RFP for OpenCL LLVM SPIR-V Backend. The goal of this project is to address and integrate specific functionalities that are currently available in the translator project but missing from the backend. Learn more: khronos.org/rfp/khronos-op… #LLVM #SPIRV #SPIR

Khronos RFP issued - project seeking devs with LLVM experience! llvm.org

The open source Slang Shading Language has transitioned from hosting at NVIDIA to Khronos under open governance! All now have an equal say in its evolution. Vulkan and many other APIs now have a portable, modern, fast-evolving Shading Language! khr.io/17f

The recording of my Vulkanised 2025 talk about Neural Texture Compression is now available: youtu.be/Gl-DdTLJecc

Delighted for Meta's commitment to open, cross-platform solutions with OpenXR. Thanks to Meta & all platform vendors for their cooperation on this important open standard. And thanks to developers letting us know when bumps in the path forward need fixing! bit.ly/4isbyHW

🚀 The first open standard for spatial computing is here! The new OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions deliver cross-platform, cross-session support for plane detection, marker tracking, and spatial anchors. 👉 khr.io/1j3 #OpenXR #SpatialComputing #XR #AR #AWE2025

Google at AWE25 "if you are developing for OpenXR you are already developing for Android XR" #Khronos #OpenXR #ANDROIDXR #SpatialComputing #AWE2025