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GDC returns to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco March 9-13 for five days of learning, networking, and inspiration. Join a global community of programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers as we convene gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry.
Khronos Booth
Visit Khronos at GDC Booth # 1443 to see cutting edge demos and pick up a free laminated reference card for a number of our APIS, including OpenCL and OpenGL
The Khronos Booth will be open on the following schedule
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Thursday, March 11 | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
| Friday, March 12 | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
| Saturday, March 13 | 10:00am - 3:00pm |
Sessions
Khronos open standards are the foundation of many of the products you will see on display at GDC and GDC Mobile. If you develop multimedia content, attend to learn how these APIs will let you tap into cutting edge graphics and media processing on platforms ranging from high-end workstations to mobile phones. This series of sessions will give you up-to-the-minute updates on OpenCL, OpenGL, COLLADA, and handheld graphics standards such as OpenGL ES and OpenVG.
Khronos GDC Sessions
| Date & Time | Session | Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 11 1:30pm – 2:30pm Room #123 North Hall |
OpenCL
At this session you will meet designers and implementers of this significant new standard for heterogeneous parallel programming on GPUs and CPUs, and learn how OpenCL inter-operates with OpenGL and DirectX, enabling advanced, cross-platform, gaming visual computing applications. |
Neil Trevett |
| Thursday, March 11 3:00pm – 4:00pm Room #123 North Hall |
OpenGL featuring WebGL The increased adoption of 3D graphics on the web, mobile, embedded and desktop devices make OpenGL more relevant than ever, ideally positioned as the only cross-platform graphics API. Attend this session to learn about the latest updates on the OpenGL standard, and how the OpenGL ARB is addressing the latest graphics hardware capabilities. Also discover how WebGL is bringing OpenGL based graphics to browsers on any platform supporting the OpenGL or OpenGL ES standards, without the need for any plug-in. |
Barthold Lichtenbelt |
| Friday, March 12 1:30pm – 2:30pm Room #123 North Hall |
COLLADA featuring WebGL |
Mark Barnes |
| Friday, March 12 3:00pm – 4:00pm Room #123 North Hall |
Mobile featuring WebGL
The Khronos Mobile session will provide an inside track on the new media APIs being used to develop the billion-dollar, billion-user gaming and mobile multimedia markets! WebGL brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in Web pages without the need for browser plug-ins by defining a JavaScript binding to OpenGL and OpenGL ES 2.0 to enable rich 3D graphics within a browser on any platform supporting the OpenGL or OpenGL ES graphics standards. WebGL is being adopted by the major browser vendors. This session will present the industry's first detailed update on the WebGL 1.0 specification. |
Tom Olson |
Member/Partner Sessions
| Date & Time | Session | Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, March 9 11:15am – 11:45am |
The Best of Both Worlds: Using UIKit with OpenGL
A lot of people think that choosing to use OpenGL means giving up on all the goodies that UIKit provides. Nothing could be further from the truth! In this session we'll show how to combine OpenGL views with other UIKit elements, how to transfer graphics data back and forth, and even how to have multiple OpenGL views. Finally, we'll cover best practices and performance measurements of what can be achieved combining the two systems. |
Noel Llopis Founder, Snappy Touch |
| Friday, March 12 3:00pm – 4:00pm |
An Overview to Creating Games with Palm's Plug-in Development Kit
Come learn how to take full advantage of the advanced hardware capabilities of Palm's webOS devices--including full OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 support--using the recently announced Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). This technical session will provide an architectural overview of Palm's hardware and software platforms and then provide hands-on details for how the PDK exposes these capabilities. |
Jeff Bush Director webOS Graphics & Gaming, Palm |
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Khronos Members Exhibiting at GDC
You can find a complete list of GDC Exhibitors here.
- Adobe - booth 817 - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. Adobe Director 11.5 and Adobe Shockwave Player software help you create and publish compelling 2D and 3D interactive games, demos, prototypes, simulations, and eLearning courses for the web, Mac and Windows desktops, DVDs, and CDs.
- AMD - booth ES 400 - an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work, home, and play.
- ARM - booth 2208 - designs technology for wireless, networking, consumer entertainment, imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. The advanced ARM® CPU architecture, ARM Mali™ graphics processing units, Mali 2D and 3D graphics software, development tools and our Partner ecosystem enable platform and game developers to create cutting-edge experiences on a range of embedded devices.
- Autodesk Inc. - booth 912 - Media and Entertainment solutions empower digital artists to realize their ideas, transforming their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Our award-winning products are designed for digital media creation, management, and delivery across all disciplines, from film and TV visual effects, color grading, and editing to animation, game development, and design visualization.
- Blizzard - booth 2726 - Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft and the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo series, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games.
- Epic - booth ES 200 - develops cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology. Epic is responsible for the multiple million-selling, award-winning “Unreal” series and “Gears of War” franchise. Epic´s Unreal Engine 3 is the current holder and three-time consecutive winner of Game Developer magazine’s Best Engine Front Line Award.
- Graphics Remedy - booth 1443 - Graphic Remedy is a privately owned software company specializing in software applications for the 3D graphics market, specifically for developers programming with OpenGL and OpenGL ES. Graphic Remedy delivers off-the-shelf professional software products for the existing desktop 3D market as well as for the emerging mobile 3D market. The company's products are being used worldwide in multiple industries and in a variety of 3D market segments.
- Imagination Technologies - booth 705 - Imagination Technologies’ POWERVR is the leading graphics technology in the phone and netbook markets, having shipped in over 250 million devices. Find out what has made POWERVR the standard for mobile and embedded 3D hardware acceleration, the choice of leading cellphone manufacturers, and the bedrock of POWERVR Insider, a free to join 16,000 member strong ecosystem, and the market-leading POWERVR Insider SDK. Imagination will also be a sponsor of GDC Mobile, with table top demos throughout the summit.
- Intel Coporation - booth 1212 - the world´s largest silicon innovator, creates products and technologies that change the way people live, work and play. Whether it´s a mobile lifestyle or a new way to enjoy entertainment at home, Intel is helping people all over the world accomplish things they never before dreamed possible.
- NVIDIA - booth ES 101 - is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
- Scaleform - booth 1012 - Scaleform´s technology is used to quickly and easily implement 3D hardware-accelerated menus, HUDs, animated textures, full-screen and in-game videos, mini-games and full casual games using Adobe CS4 and Flash. Scaleform GFx, the #1 game UI solution, includes a complete Flash UI framework, memory and performance analyzers, and add-ons for Flash video and IME Asian chat.
- Sony Computer Entertainment America - booth 2420 CP - markets the PlayStation family of products and develops, publishes, markets and distributes software for the PS one game console, the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, PLAYSTATION 3 and the PSP system for the North American market. Based in Foster City, Calif., SCEA serves as headquarters for all North American operations.
