A new tool for uploading 3D content with WebGL and scripting GLSL shaders online has been released. Currently models are uploaded directly from Blender. Everyone is welcome to upload their own art work.

Digital Media Professionals Inc announced that Olympus has selected DMP 2D/3D hybrid graphics IP core “SMAPH-H” for their OLYMPUS OM-D E-M1, the flagship model of a mirrorless system, integrating DSLR. SMAPH-H is a hybrid graphics IP core optimized for high-performance, high-quality user interfaces and mobile applications, supporting OpenVG 1.1 and OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 APIs.

The next London WebGL Workshop will be Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:30PM. We’ll be taking a look at some of three.js’s features, and maybe a look at some alternatives. The venue will once again be the SkillsMatter on Goswell Road, London.

On Thursday 13 February 2014 the first Khronos meetup in Amsterdam will take place. The goal is to learn about open media-standards from The Khronos Group and others. So when OpenCV is discussed, we’ll also talk OpenVX. Speakers include Ton Roosendaal of the Blender Foundation talking Blender and OpenGL and Maarten and Jurjen of ThreeDee Media talking WebGL. Complete details are available here and here.

GFXBench 3.0 is a high-end 3D graphics benchmark that adds advanced OpenGL ES 3 features and special tests to the popular GFXBench benchmark suite.

MontageJS has introduced a new WebGL-based component for the MontageJS framework. The 3D view component for MontageJS offers an abstraction layer for WebGL and aims to make the individual elements of a 3D scene just as easy to manipulate as conventional HTML elements in the page DOM. If your browser has WebGL enabled, you can try out a demo here. The MontageJS 3D view component is designed to load and display glTF content. The COLLADA working group provides Mac and Windows open source converters to translate COLLADA files into glTF.

IBM developerWorks offers a series of articles on WebGL applications development. Taking the JavaScript developer from low level WebGL development, through libraries including Three.js and SceneJS, to creating interactive 3D games and data visualizations.

The Khronos Group today announced the ratification and public release of the SPIR 1.2 specification that provides a non-source encoding, and binary level portability, for OpenCL 1.2 device programs. SPIR (Standard Portable Intermediate Representation) is the industry’s first open, cross-platform Intermediate Representation standard for portable heterogeneous parallel computing and is based on LLVM IR. SPIR enables developers to avoid exposing sensitive kernel source and enables a diversity of language front-ends to easily target OpenCL platforms and devices in addition to OpenCL C. The SPIR specification and registry can be found on the Khronos website.

Intel has released an update to the Intel XDK (cross-platform development kit). At the heart of Crosswalk is the Blink rendering and layout engine, which provides the same HTML5 features and capabilities expected in the modern web runtimes such as WebGL and Web Audio. However, with Crosswalk, one can see enhanced JavaScript, WebGL, and Audio performance on Android 4.x devices.

Adobe has just released its update for Photoshop CC, bringing with it major support for the world of 3D. Included is the natively built-in option to publish your 3D models directly to Sketchfab using WebGL. Support files types include OBJ, STL, 3DS, Collada, and KMZ.

Stop by the Khronos booth at HiPEAC on 21st Jan for the latest updates on SPIR and discussion on compiler technology for parallel computation.

There will be many OpenCL related talks being given at LPGPU January 20th, 2014 in Vienna Austria. The workshop is being given in relation to HiPEAC 2014.

LPGPU Workshop on Power-Efficient GPU and Many-core Computing will be held in conjunction with the HiPEAC’14 Conference, Monday (morning & afternoon), January 20 2014, Vienna, Austria in Ballroom D. More information on the LPGPU consortium can be found on their website.

The Khronos Group UK Chapter Meeting presentation from Mosaic3DX about Energy Efficient Programming with Massive Parallelism is now available online. There are videos, slide presentations and photos.

BuildAR announced their latest release that shows a rich location based Augmented Reality application running in a standard mobile web browser using WebGL. This is built using the open source awe.js library.