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The Khronos Group is delighted to welcome Google’s adoption of the OpenXR open standard. This significant milestone marks a win-win, empowering AndroidXR to harness a robust content ecosystem while offering OpenXR developers access to a significantly broader audience.

NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is a day-zero conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementation. Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025.

The Khronos Group has announced the release of Vulkan 1.4, the latest version of its cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API. 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 application development and deployment across multiple platforms.

The Vulkan 1.4 specification consolidates numerous previously optional extensions, features, and increased minimum hardware limits, many of which were defined in the Vulkan Roadmap 2022 and 2024 milestones and associated profiles, including:

• Streaming Transfers: Vulkan 1.4 imposes new implementation requirements to ensure portable, cross-platform applications can stream large quantities of data to a device while simultaneously rendering at full performance.
• Previously optional extensions and features critical to emerging high-performance applications are now mandatory in Vulkan 1.4, ensuring their reliable availability across multiple platforms. These include push descriptors, dynamic rendering local reads, and scalar block layouts.
• Maintenance extensions up to and including VK_KHR_maintenance6 are now part of the core Vulkan 1.4 specification.
• 8K rendering with up to eight separate render targets is now guaranteed to be supported, along with several other limit increases.

Khronos Group announces the release of the glTF Sample Viewer version 1.1 featuring the restructuring of the repository, adding WebP support, enhanced mobile support, adding KHR_animation_pointer support, integrating glTF validator, and more! In this blog, members from UX3D explore the new features and share insights on how it is easier to integrate Sample Viewer into web applications.

OpenXR Working Group member, Fred Emmott shares his best practices for OpenXR API Layers on Windows. His latest blog shares 12 tips that will help you avoid common problems, maximize your software’s compatibility, find issues before your users, and simplifying & accelerating debugging.

Pico has announced that their runtime is now officially OpenXR 1.1 compliant, highlighting their commitment to advancing industry standards and delivering seamless interoperability for developers and users. PICO’s OpenXR SDK can be downloaded on their PICO Developer website.