Khronos Group Welcomes Zeromatter Technologies as Associate Member! https://zeromatter.com/ #simulation #training

At SIGGRAPH last month, Bill Sherman offered insights into ANARI's capabilities, discussed best practices for ANARI applications, and showcased innovative use cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPw5dIga3o #ANARI #analytical #rendering #science

At SIGGRAPH last month, OpenXR Working Group Vice Chair, Denny Rönngren, gave an overview of OpenXR with all the latest updates from the group on the advancement of the specification. Video is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMLf6ddnNKw #openxr

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 […]

In this blog post, Eric Chadwick introduces the four newest showcase assets and talks about the unique challenges they present. These models were designed not just to look great in the updated glTF Sample Viewer, but to demonstrate what’s possible with glTF […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

The Khronos Group has issued an RFP for Part 1 of OpenXR validation layer enhancements. All submissions are due September 30th. Learn more: https://www.khronos.org/rfp/openxr-validation-layer-enhancement-i #requestforproposal #openxr #validation

Khronos Group welcomes Honor Device as a new Contributor Member! https://www.honor.com/global/?host=honor.com

The Khronos Group Birds of a Feather Sessions yesterday at the Fairmont was wonderful! It was great to see you all again and to hear the updates. The networking reception was packed! Thank you to our Networking Reception sponsors: Cesium, LunarG, and NVIDIA! #siggraph2025

Today is a big day at SIGGRAPH! We are having our Birds of a Feather sessions at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel starting at 9:00am. Come to hear updates from 3D Commerce, ANARI, glTF, Machine Learning Council, OpenXR, Slang, Vulkan and WebGL/WebGPU! Get the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Today is the day! Join us in East Building, Room 8 of the Vancouver Convention Centre starting at 10:45 for a discussion of the current state of technologies, formats, and use cases to guide the evolution of Gaussian splat interoperability […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

3D Gaussian Splats leading organizations across the geospatial, graphics, and standards domains — including Khronos Group, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Niantic Spatial, Cesium, and Esri have come together to integrate 3D Geospatial Gaussian Splats into […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Khronos announced the inaugural Shading Languages Symposium, that will take place on February 12-13, 2026, in San Diego, California. The symposium will bring together developers, implementors, researchers, and technical artists to explore the current state and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

As the 3D commerce industry evolves, artists and brands alike need clear, up-to-date guidance to efficiently produce optimized assets. Today, we're excited to announce the launch of version 2.0 of the Asset Creation Guidelines—a comprehensive and continuously […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

The Khronos ANARI (Analytic Rendering Interface) Working Group is excited to share developments as we approach SIGGRAPH 2025, including a first look at ANARI 1.1 updates. New ANARI 1.1 features include new geometry and scene structure additions, new spatial […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Get your ticket to join us for the Khronos Networking Reception on Wednesday, August 13 starting at 6:00 PM! Mix & mingle with Khronos presenters, developers, and industry peers after a full day of BOF sessions. Sponsored by LunarG, Cesium, and NVIDIA, this […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

If you missed last week's Building the foundation for Accelerated AI roundtable. The recording is now available for viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98H2A04SKw #machinelearning #artificialintelligence

If you missed last week's Building the foundation for Accelerated AI roundtable. The recording is now available for viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98H2A04SKw

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]

The Metaverse Standards Forum is proud to announce the launch of its Forum Labs Initiative — a major new program designed to accelerate open cooperation and interoperability through grounded, high-impact Collaborative Projects. p-NET has been designated as the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join WebGL and WebGPU at SIGGRAPH for an exciting session with the latest news straight from the working groups driving the future of high-performance graphics and compute on the web. We’ll also feature Toucan an exciting new language that lets developers […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Come join us at SIGGRAPH! Gaussian Splats: Ready for Standardization Town Hall Date and Time: Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 10:45 – 12:15pm PDT Location: East Building, Room 8 In this 90-minute Frontier Workshop, we will discuss the current technologies, formats […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, Canada! We have a whole slate of great BoF and sessions featuring #slang, #gltf, #webgl, #ANARI, #openxr and the Machine Learning Council, plus! View the whole slate of Khronos activities at: https://www.khronos.org/events/siggraph-2025 #machinelearning

Next week, learn about our preliminary insights from the Khronos AI Ecosystem Research Project, highlighting current industry trends and gaps, and a preview of the forthcoming public release of the Khronos #ai Research Database. Learn more and register: khr.io/1j1

OpenCL v3.0.19 maintenance update released with bug fixes & clarifications and adds two new extensions: cl_khr_spirv_queries to simplify querying the SPIR-V capabilities of a device, and cl_khr_external_memory_android_hardware_buffer to more efficiently […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Khronos has released SPIR-V 1.6.6. This is a maintenance release with fixes, clarifications, and enumerant reservations. https://registry.khronos.org/SPIR-V/specs/unified1/SPIRV.html#_changes_from_version_1_6_revision_5

This Thursday at 12 noon, Khronos Group President, Neil Trevett, will be speaking at International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium's 3D Community Group call. Neil will be discussing synergies around 3D interoperability and potential future collaboration! Call details […]

Join Khronos for a live roundtable on the critical role of foundational, cross-vendor acceleration standards in the evolving AI landscape. This session will share preliminary insights from the Khronos AI Ecosystem Research Project. Discover how Khronos is […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us next week for the next installment of Getting Started with Slang! This webinar will be on the Reflections API. When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT Learn more and register: https://shader-slang.org/event/2025/06/04/getting-started-with-slang-reflections-api/ #slang #reflections #api

Khronos Group's Dennis Fu presented at this year's Huawei Developer Conference held in Songshan Lake, China. Dennis gave two presentations: AR/VR for OpenXR and Graphics and Gaming for Vulkan/glTF.

The Khronos Group warmly welcomes Niantic Spatial as a Contributor member!

Be sure to visit Khronos members Pico and VNTANA in booth 417, 202A at #awe2025!

glTF Chair, Alexey Medvedev and 3D Commerce Chair, Dan Frith, are on booth duty at #awe2025. Stop by for a visit in booth 510!

Today at #awe2025, #lunarg demonstrates initial support for OpenXR in its popular developer tool, #gfxreconstruct. Press release: https://khr.io/1j4

We are pleased to announce OpenXR spatial entities extensions. These new extensions unlock portable, spatial computing by standardizing plane and marker tracking, spatial anchors, and persistent experiences across sessions and platforms. Take a look and give us your feedback! Learn more […]

Attending AWE? Be sure to stop by and visit us in booth 510! Check out our event page for more information on glTF and 3D Commerce panels, as well as a session on OpenXR. Learn more: https://www.khronos.org/events/awe-2025 #awe #awe25

VisIt, the open-source scientific visualization tool developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), embraces ANARI for advanced scientific visualization. This integration, led by ANARI member Kevin Griffin, and in partnership with LLNL developers Kathleen Biagas and Mark Miller […]

OpenVX new extensions deliver enhanced graph pipelining, tensor views of images, and sub-image array support. In this post, we’ll explore what’s new, why it matters, and how developers can benefit. https://khr.io/1iz

🎉 Happy Birthday SYCL! 🎉 The Khronos Group is celebrating a significant milestone as SYCL marks its tenth anniversary. First ratified and published in May 2015, SYCL has grown from an ambitious specification to a cornerstone of heterogeneous computing […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

glTF is seeking final input from early adopters of KHR_interactivity. We invite content creators, artists, implementers and engine developers to explore and experiment with the openly available tools and sample assets to integrate interactive glTF content into their projects. Learn more: khr.io/1ix

OpenVX Working Group Chair, Kiriti Nagesh Gowda, will be presenting on the OpenVX standard at this year's Embedded Vision Summit! Learn more about Khronos Group's involvement at EVS 2025: https://www.khronos.org/events/embedded-vision-summit-2025

In this new blog, we look at OpenCL at last month's IWOCL 2025. The event confirmed that OpenCL continues to evolve and thrives as a critical foundation for cross-platform, high-performance computing across industries. Learn more: https://khr.io/1iu

Tomorrow at GOSIM AI, Markus Tavenrath from NVIDIA will be giving a great presentation on Khronos in the World of Open Source and Machine Learning. This session will highlight key Khronos APIs accelerating Machine Learning […]

XR Expo kicks off next week in Stuttgart, Germany, and we're excited to be participating. Frédéric Plourde will be giving OpenXR core specification updates and a talk on platform interoperability. Be sure to catch him on May 9th starting at 4:05pm. Learn more: […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Slang's Working Group Chair, Shannon Woods, put together an in-depth introduction to neural graphics for beginners in Slang using a simplified version of Slang's 2D Gaussian splatting example! https://shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04/04/neural-gfx-in-an-afternoon/

In this case study, explore how Google leverages glTF to improve product education, cut costs, and streamline workflows while advancing the state of the art of 3D content creation. Learn more: https://khr.io/1im

On April 29, 2025, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT. Learn more and register: https://events.cels.anl.gov/event/643/

We are very excited for the kick off of the 13th international workshop on OpenCL and SYCL in Heidelberg, Germany! The lineup is super exciting and it is going to be a great conference! Join us: https://www.iwocl.org/

Tomorrow, Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group, will be interviewed at the half day conference, AI, Digital Twin and new devices transform immersive experiences. This hybrid event is both online and live in Milano. Learn more […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us next week on March 26th to explore the latest innovations to the #openvx standard, recent use cases, and an outline of further innovations that developers can expect in the upcoming OpenVX 2.0 framework […]

A team of experts from IT4Innovations, NVIDIA, the University of Cologne, and the University of California has developed a new approach to rendering scientific visualisations that uses the ANARI API for parallel processing of large sci-vis data. This approach allows computations to be […]