The Khronos Group - Media Authoring and Acceleration

The Khronos Group is a not for profit industry consortium creating open standards for the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.

OpenGL - The Industry Standard for High Performance Graphics

OpenGL® is the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API in the industry, bringing thousands of applications to a wide variety of computer platforms. It is window-system and operating-system independent as well as network-transparent. OpenGL enables developers of software for PC, workstation, and supercomputing hardware to create high-performance, visually compelling graphics software applications, in markets such as CAD, content creation, energy, entertainment, game development, manufacturing, medical, and virtual reality. OpenGL exposes all the features of the latest graphics hardware.

OpenCL - The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems

OpenCL™ is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) greatly improves speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories from gaming and entertainment to scientific and medical software.

OpenGL ES - The Standard for Embedded 3D Graphics

OpenGL® ES is a royalty-free, cross-platform API for full-function 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems - including consoles, phones, appliances and vehicles. It consists of well-defined subsets of desktop OpenGL, creating a flexible and powerful low-level interface between software and graphics acceleration. OpenGL ES includes profiles for floating-point and fixed-point systems and the EGL™ specification for portably binding to native windowing systems. OpenGL ES 1.X is for fixed function hardware and offers acceleration, image quality and performance. OpenGL ES 2.X enables full programmable 3D graphics. OpenGL SC is tuned for the safety critical market.

OpenGL SC - Safety Critical Profile

The open standard OpenGL® SC Safety Critical Profile is defined to meet the unique needs of the safety-critical market for avionics, industrial, military, medical and automotive applications including DO178-B certification. It simplifies safety-critical certification, guarantees repeatability, allows compliance with real-time requirements, and facilitates porting of legacy safety-critical applications.

EGL - Native Platform Interface

EGL™ is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system. It handles graphics context management, surface/buffer binding, and rendering synchronization and enables high-performance, accelerated, mixed-mode 2D and 3D rendering using other Khronos APIs.

COLLADA - Digital Asset and FX Exchange Schema

COLLADA™ defines an XML-based schema to make it easy to transport 3D assets between applications - enabling diverse 3D authoring and content processing tools be combined into a production pipeline. The intermediate language provides comprehensive encoding of visual scenes including: geometry, shaders and effects, physics, animation, kinematics, and even multiple version representations of the same asset.COLLADA FX enables leading 3D authoring tools to work effectively together to create shader and effects applications and assets to be authored and packaged using OpenGL® Shading Language, Cg, CgFX, and DirectX® FX

WebGL - OpenGL ES 2.0 for the Web

WebGL is a royalty-free, cross-platform API that brings OpenGL ES 2.0 to the web as a 3D drawing context within HTML, exposed as low-level Document Object Model interfaces. It uses the OpenGL shading language, GLSL ES, and can be cleanly combined with other web content that is layered on top or underneath the 3D content. It is ideally suited for dynamic 3D web applications in the JavaScript programming language, and will be fully integrated in leading web browsers.

OpenKODE - Khronos Open Development Environment

OpenKODE® is a royalty-free, open standard that combines a set of native APIs to increase source portability for rich media and graphics applications. OpenKODE reduces mobile platform fragmentation by providing a cross-platform API for accessing operating system resources, and a media architecture for portable access to advanced mixed graphics acceleration.

OpenVG - The Standard for Vector Graphics Acceleration

OpenVG™ is a royalty-free, cross-platform API that provides a low-level hardware acceleration interface for vector graphics libraries such as Flash and SVG. OpenVG is targeted primarily at handheld devices that require portable acceleration of high-quality vector graphics for compelling user interfaces and text on small screen devices - while enabling hardware acceleration to provide fluidly interactive performance at very low power levels.

OpenMAX IL - The Standard for Media Library Portability

OpenMAX™ is a royalty-free, cross-platform API that provides comprehensive streaming media codec and application portability by enabling accelerated multimedia components to be developed, integrated and programmed across multiple operating systems and silicon platforms. The OpenMAX API will be shipped with processors to enable library and codec implementers to rapidly and effectively make use of the full acceleration potential of new silicon - regardless of the underlying hardware architecture.

OpenMAX AL - The Standard for Media Library Portability

OpenMAX DL - The Standard for Media Library Portability

OpenSL ES - The Standard for Embedded Audio Acceleration

OpenSL ES™ is a royalty-free, cross-platform, hardware-accelerated audio API tuned for embedded systems. It provides a standardized, high-performance, low-latency method to access audio functionality for developers of native applications on embedded mobile multimedia devices, enabling straightforward cross-platform deployment of hardware and software audio capabilities, reducing implementation effort, and promoting the market for advanced audio.

OpenWF - The Standard for building composited windowing systems

OpenWF™ is a royalty-free, cross-platform API that provides a low-level hardware abstraction interface for composited windowing systems to make use of composition and display hardware. OpenWF is targeted primarily at handheld devices that require portable acceleration of composition whilst minimizing memory bandwidth usage and power levels.

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Optimizing OpenGL for iPhone

Tim Omernick from the popular gaming company, ngmoco, provides a broad overview of OpenGL on the iPhone.

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Rightware - Kanzi Solution

Rightware serves the mobile and automotive industries with Kanzi™ solution for rapid user interface design and deployment. Rightware also develops industry leading system performance analysis tools. The world renowned product portfolio includes 3DMark®Mobile for OpenGL ES 1.x and OpenGL ES 2.0, VGMark® for OpenVG 1.x, and SPMark® platform benchmark for Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, Linux and mobile Java.

Rightware Oy has acquired Futuremark Corporation’s Mobile and Embedded Business Unit.

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Smith Micro Software at Collada Plugfest

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Video Interview With Gordon MacLachlan From Imagination Technologies About OpenGL ES

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GCDC’08: Rémi Arnaud is talking about COLLADA

During his Wednesday session at GCDC’08 Intel‘s Rémi Arnaud delivered deep insight into the open source 3D interface COLLADA. It‘s an heavily used industry standard which a lot of applications like 3dsMax, Maya and companies like Google, Adobe, etc. are implenting already.

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Creating and Exporting Game Assets w/Softimage XSI and COLLADA tools

Peter De Lappe, 3D Evangelist and Application Engineer with Softimage, shows Softimage’s XSI and COLLADA exchange asset aggregator tools at the Game Developers Conference. Watch to see how easily you can create, copy, and export game assets with XSI, CryENGINE and Crosswalk.

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Intel Partner Maxon Gives a Demonstration Using Collada at SIGGRAPH

Kai Pedersen, Tech Support Manager for Maxon, gives Take Five Videos a look at how Collada is used in the production pipeline.

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Dr. Remi Arnaud discusses the Collada Plugfest Event

In this video Dr. Remi Arnaud discusses what Collada’s Plugfest event is used for and how the event can be a great means of making Collada a better tool for game, and visual computing developers.

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Rita Turkowski and Amy Barton at the Collada Plugfest Event

Take Five Videos, Amy Barton, talks to Rita Turkowski about the Collada Plugfest, and how events like it can help developers become better aquainted with their tools.

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COLLADA in the Game - GDC Session Overview - with Remi Arnaud

Remi Arnaud, co-creator of the COLLADA standard, led panelists in a discussion at GDC on how COLLADA is meeting the demanding requirements of the most compelling content and creating next-generation user experiences. We sat down with him and asked him to review the highlights on video.

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OpenGL Tutorial #0a: Getting OpenGL Set Up on Windows

A quick tutorial on setting up OpenGL on Windows for development

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OpenGL Tutorial #1: Basic Shapes

A simply tutorial getting someone started in creating basic shapes and compiling to run on your Windows computer.

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Remi Arnaud - COLLADA and Game Engines for the Future

Co-Creator of COLLADA and Senior Graphics Architect at Intel, Remi Arnaud, talks about COLLADA, the open standard for game development tools.

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The Khronos Group - a non-profit industry consortium to develop, publish and promote open standard, royalty-free media authoring and acceleration standards for desktop and handheld devices, combined with conformance qualification programs for platform and device interoperability.

Connecting Software to Silicon

The Khronos Group - Media Authoring and Acceleration

OpenGL - The Industry Standard for High Performance Graphics

OpenCL - The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems

OpenGL ES - The Standard for Embedded 3D Graphics

OpenGL SC - Safety Critical Profile

EGL - Native Platform Interface

COLLADA - Digital Asset and FX Exchange Schema

WebGL - OpenGL ES 2.0 for the Web

OpenKODE - Khronos Open Development Environment

OpenVG - The Standard for Vector Graphics Acceleration

OpenMAX IL - The Standard for Media Library Portability

OpenMAX AL - The Standard for Media Library Portability

OpenMAX DL - The Standard for Media Library Portability

OpenSL ES - The Standard for Embedded Audio Acceleration

OpenWF - The Standard for building composited windowing systems

Khronos related Multimedia

Optimizing OpenGL for iPhone

Rightware - Kanzi Solution

Smith Micro Software at Collada Plugfest

Video Interview With Gordon MacLachlan From Imagination Technologies About OpenGL ES

GCDC’08: Rémi Arnaud is talking about COLLADA

Creating and Exporting Game Assets w/Softimage XSI and COLLADA tools

Intel Partner Maxon Gives a Demonstration Using Collada at SIGGRAPH

Dr. Remi Arnaud discusses the Collada Plugfest Event

Rita Turkowski and Amy Barton at the Collada Plugfest Event

COLLADA in the Game - GDC Session Overview - with Remi Arnaud

OpenGL Tutorial #0a: Getting OpenGL Set Up on Windows

OpenGL Tutorial #1: Basic Shapes

Remi Arnaud - COLLADA and Game Engines for the Future

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