The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development. Learn more […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

We are excited to share that the session videos and presentation slides from Vulkanised 2026 are now available online! The full set of technical videos and downloadable slides covering keynotes, deep-dives, case studies, and panel sessions is now ready for the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Happy birthday Vulkan!

Vulkan has completely revamped the Vulkan subsystem with the release of the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. In this blog, Vulkan Strategy Officer, Tobias Hector, explains how the new extension fundamentally changes how Vulkan applications interact with […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

The 2026 LunarG Vulkan Ecosystem Survey is LIVE! Your feedback shapes Vulkan's future: SDK tools, validation layers, extensions, platform support & more. Quick, anonymous, and it helps every dev in the ecosystem. Take it now! https://surveymonkey.com/r/LRFD7V6

Today the Vulkan Working Group has released two important updates to the API and ecosystem: an entirely new Descriptor system and the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone. Initial support for these features is expected in the next Vulkan SDK release planned for Q1 […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Register now for Vulkanised 2026, the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API, and bring your questions to be answered by our world-leading panel of experts! Explore the agenda and register today: https://vulkan.org/events/vulkanised-2026 […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Khronos Group Welcomes Lisuan Technology as Contributor Member Lisuan Technology is a company dedicated to the research and development of graphics rendering GPUs. Founded by leading figures in the GPU industry, it possesses capabilities in large-scale chip […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Early Bird pricing for Vulkanised 2026 ends on January 18. Register now to attend the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API. Learn from leading Vulkan experts and gain real-world insights into the latest Vulkan developments, extensions […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Newly released VK_EXT_present_timing extension combines two fundamental features: -The ability to receive timing feedback about previous presentation requests -The ability to explicitly specify a target presentation time for each request Learn more: https://khr.io/1m8 #vulkan

The Khronos Group has announced that Shader Execution Reordering in #vulkan has advanced from a vendor-specific extension to a multi-vendor Vulkan extension, reducing issues with divergence in ray tracing workloads. Learn more […]

The Vulkanised 2026 program has been released! The 2026 program includes keynote presentations, technical talks, a panel discussion, a developer tools roundtable, and application case-studies spanning a wide range of topics that matter to everyone using Vulkan […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

LunarG Achieves Vulkan 1.3 Conformance with KosmicKrisp on Apple Silicon https://www.lunarg.com/lunarg-achieves-vulkan-1-3-conformance-with-kosmickrisp-on-apple-silicon/

In this tutorial series from SIGGRAPH, we enhance a Vulkan renderer with ray tracing features to implement real-time pixel-perfect shadows (with and without transparency) and a bonus reflection effect. You will work with provided scaffolded code (based on the Vulkan Tutorial) and fill in key […]

Autodesk VRED 2026 has introduced new Vulkan renderer alongside the traditional OpenGL real-time pipeline, addressing fundamental limitations while introducing hybrid ray tracing capabilities that significantly enhance visual quality in real-time scenarios on […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

This Sunday is the deadline for submissions for Vulkanised 2026. Submit your title and short abstract today! Vulkanised 2026 submissions: https://vulkan.org/events/vulkanised-call-for-submissions#how-to-submit #vulkan #gpu #api

Next week at X.Org Developer's Conference there will be a half dozen sessions on the Vulkan API including tips and tricks for Vulkan Conformance Test Suite, KosmicKrisp - a Vulkan to Metal layered driver, and more. Check out all the Vulkan sessions at […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

The Vulkanised 2026 call for submissions ends in less than a month. Vulkanised is the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API and is a unique technical event that brings the Vulkan developer community together to exchange ideas, solve problems and help steer the future […]

As we approach SIGGRAPH 2025, a new blog post has been posted that previews the key Vulkan developments, initiatives, and events that will take center stage at the Vulkan BOF, including: an update on Vulkan 1.4 adoption, recent extensions, a proposed new […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

We are excited for next week's SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, Canada! Come see our Birds of a Feather (BOF) session, panels, Forging Forward with Vulkan. Don’t miss your chance to connect with us and the wider developer community […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook is out now in paperback! Written by experts with decades of rendering experience, this cookbook equips you with practical, hands-on recipes to master modern 3D graphics development by using bindless #vulkan […]

Vulkanised 2026 will be held in San Diego in February. If you would like to speak at this premiere event dedicated to Vulkan developers, now is your chance. The call for submissions is open until October 12. Learn more: https://vulkan.org/events/vulkanised-2026 #vulkan #Vulkanised

Today, with the release of version 1.4.321 of the #vulkan specification, Vulkan Video is once again being expanded for encoding operations with the introduction of the Encode Intra-refresh extension—the second advanced feature extension for encoding. https://khr.io/1l7

Vulkanised is coming to San Diego on February 9-11, 2026, and we are pleased to announce the call for submissions is now open until October 12! We are seeking submissions from Vulkan experts eager to share their work. Learn more: https://www.vulkan.org/events/vulkanised-call-for-submissions

Synchronization in Vulkan has long been one of its most notorious challenges. The Vulkan Working Group has been steadily working to simplifying the synchronization model. One of the most frequent developer frustrations has been the complexity of managing image […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Push descriptors apply the push constants concept to descriptor sets. Instead of creating per-object descriptor sets, this example passes descriptors at command buffer creation time. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/tree/main/samples/extensions/hpp_push_descriptors

New Vulkan Video Decode VP9 extension! With the release of version 1.4.317 of the Vulkan specification, this set of extensions is being expanded once again with the introduction of VP9 decoding. VP9 was among the first royalty-free codecs to gain mass adoption […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

This new sample demonstrates one of the functionalities of VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3, allowing dynamic change sampling without the need to swap pipelines. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/tree/main/samples/extensions/dynamic_multisample_rasterization

This new sample demonstrates how to render a simple triangle using Vulkan 1.3 core features. It modernizes the traditional "Hello Triangle" Vulkan sample by incorporating Dynamic Rendering, Synchronization2, Extended Dynamic State, and Vertex Buffers […]

In this new sample, we enhance the previous MobileNeRF implementation sample by using Vulkan Query feature, which leverages the hardware ray tracing capabilities of mobile GPUs that support it -- greatly boosting performance in most use cases […]

In this tutorial Etay shows how to use the Assimp library in order to load models in Vulkan. https://youtu.be/Zk9Vd_TZ_Yw

The 2025 LunarG Ecosystem Survey Results are here! See what Vulkan developers had to say about the state of the Vulkan ecosystem. Highlights in the blog post and a link to the full report! https://khr.io/1il

The slides and recording of last week's Vulkan Video Encode webinar are now available: https://www.khronos.org/events/unlocking-the-power-of-vulkan-video-encode

Starting with Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will no longer get the old Nouveau OpenGL driver by default and will instead get Zink+NVK. Unlike most OpenGL drivers which are written to target the underlying hardware directly, Zink is an OpenGL implementation written on top of Vulkan. Collabora has […]

NVIDIA RTX Mega Geometry is now available with new Vulkan samples! As part of this release, new Vulkan samples have been made available showing how you can use clusters of triangles to build acceleration structures faster and more […]

NVIDIA posts Vulkan RTX neural shader samples. NVIDIA RTX Neural Shaders bring small neural networks into programmable shaders. This technology framework enables the training and deployment of neural networks directly within shaders, enabling you to compress game data and shader code and […]

Vulkanised 2025 kicks off tomorrow! This sold-out event is the premiere Vulkan event of the year, and we are super excited to bring you an incredible slate of talks & panels in Cambridge. We especially want to thank our incredible sponsors!

Help shape the future of the Vulkan developer ecosystem! The 2025 LunarG Ecosystem Survey is now live. A few minutes of your time will help us chart the course and set priorities for the upcoming year. Survey closes on February 19, 2025. www.surveymonkey.com/r/89LW2R8

NVIDIA has just released Vulkan samples for RTX Mega Geometry. They should run on all RTX GPUs using the new drivers: https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_animated_clusters https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_tessellated_clusters https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_lod_clusters […]

This new sample demonstrates how to use the VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read extension in conjunction with the VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering extension. This combination can replace core render and subpasses […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Just a quick reminder to anyone interested in attending Vulkanised 2025 that the discounted Early Bird rates close this Friday, January 10th! https://vulkan.org/events/vulkanised-2025 #vulkan #Vulkanised

Tom Olson and Ralph Potter are the outgoing and incoming Chairs of the Vulkan Working Group. They join the Software Engineering Daily podcast with Joe Nash to talk about earlier graphics APIs, what motivated the creation of Vulkan, modern GPUs, and more […]

Vulkan Chair, Ralph Potter, hosted a wonderful Vulkan Birds of a Feather at SIGGRAPH Asia. The slides and video are available on the event page: https://www.khronos.org/events/siggraph-asia-2024

The Khronos Group has announced the release of Vulkan 1.4. Vulkan 1.4 integrates and mandates support for many proven features into its core specification, expanding the functionality that is consistently available to developers, greatly simplifying […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]