Codeplay announces SPIR-V support for ComputeCpp in v0.3.0. This beta implementation of SPIR-V for OpenCL support means that developers can use SYCL and ComputeCpp to develop for any OpenCL hardware that includes a driver that consumes SPIR-V.

vkDOOM3 adds a Vulkan renderer to DOOM 3 BFG Edition. It was written as an example of how to use Vulkan for writing something more sizable than simple recipes. It covers topics such as General Setup, Proper Memory & Resource Allocation, Synchronization, and Pipelines. (source)

A new post from GPU Open on Vulkan. “An important part of learning the Vulkan® API – just like any other API – is to understand what types of objects are defined in it, what they represent and how they relate to each other. To help with this, we’ve created a diagram that shows all of the Vulkan objects and some of their relationships, especially the order in which you create one from another.”

OpenGL 4.6 adds support for SPIR-V extensions (GL_ARB_spirv_extensions) so you can tell what OpenGL extensions have corresponding SPIR-V support. The GPU Caps Viewer has been updated to report the SPIR-V extensions of OpenGL 4.6 drivers.

The landscape of APIs for accelerating vision and neural network software using specialized processors continues to rapidly evolve. Many industry-standard APIs, such as OpenCL and OpenVX, are being upgraded to increasingly focus on deep learning, and the industry is rapidly adopting the new generation of low-level, explicit GPU APIs, such as Vulkan, that tightly integrate graphics and compute. Neil Trevett presented the “Vision Acceleration API Landscape: Options and Trade-offs” tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit.

With SIGGRAPH 2017 almost behind us, we wanted to ensure you could find everything Khronos related one place:

• Khronos SIGGRAPH 2017 Event page
• Press Release: Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.6 with SPIR-V Support
• Press Release: Khronos Releases Graphics API Updates and Demonstrates Ecosystem Advancement at SIGGRAPH 2017
• Blog: Strong glTF Ecosystem Momentum at SIGGRAPH 2017
• Blog: Khronos Announces the Vulkan Portability Initiative
• Presentation Slides
• Video: Playlist from Khronos BOFs
• Photos from SIGGRAPH

Godot Engine now supports the full glTF 2.0 specification. With the release of Godot 3.0 alpha1, users needed more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. The surprise, though, is how good this format is for video game asset exchange. Nothing as good existed before, and it solves a problem that we, as an industry, have been struggling with for a long time. Khronos, with glTF 2.0, has given us a fantastic chance to standardize a smooth workflow between 3D modelling software and game engines. To better understand why, a list of previous attempts will be explained and why they failed.

Excited about NVIDIA’s latest driver with OpenGL 4.6 support? But you missed getting the details at SIGGRAPH 2017? Watch Jeff Kiel and Mark Kilgard explain OpenGL 4.6, a live demo of Nsight analyzing GFXBench’s OpenGL path, multi-vendor interop, NVIDIA’s open source contributions for graphics, and more. Alternatively flip through theslides.

Epic Games spoke at the Khronos Group “3D Graphics with Khronos - Vulkan, OpenGL & OpenGL ES” BOF at Siggraph 2017. Epic Games announced that they are looking to make Vulkan the default API for exported Linux games. Watch the event online on Youtube. (source: Gaming On Linux)

The Khronos Group held their annual BOF-Blitz at SIGGRAPH today. There were five BOFs in all, and they were all a huge success. If you were not able to get to SIGGRAPH and you missed the live stream, you can now watch the video online here.

Khronos member MAXON announced the next generation of its professional 3D application, Cinema 4D Release 19 (R19), which offers both tools and enhancements artists can put to use immediately, and provides a peek at the future. MAXON will debut Cinema 4D R19 during SIGGRAPH 2017 in LA, where the developer can be found at booth #701. MAXON has introduced OpenGL capabilities in BodyPaint 3D, MAXON’s professional paint and texturing toolset.

NVIDIA is releasing a new version of Falcor, so that it now supports both DirectX 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs. Vulkan is being used to improve mobile visuals including that of VR. Falcor provides support for ORCA assets and is available for download from Github.

There’s now a JavaScript library for executing neural networks inside a webpage, using the hardware-accelerated graphics API available in modern web browsers. Developed by a team of MIT graduate students, TensorFire can run TensorFlow-style machine learning models on any GPU. TensorFire works using the WebGL standard, a cross-platform system for rendering GPU-accelerated graphics in browsers. WebGL supports GLSL, a C-like language used to write shaders, which are short programs used to transform data directly on the GPU.

SIGGRAPH 2017: Two great sessions today covering OpenGL, Vulkan and WebGL. Be sure not to miss “Cesium: 3D Globes on the Web” at 10:30AM and in the afternoon “NVIDIA: OpenGL and Vulkan Support for 2017”. Get details on these sessions and other Khronos standards related sessions on the new Khronos website.

Only a few days after the 1.35.x release, GPU Caps Viewer 1.36.x has been released with support for OpenGL 4.6. OpenGL 4.6 introduces the support of SPIR-V modules in OpenGL and the set of SPIR-V extensions is listed exposed in the OpenGL panel. There are a few Vulkan improvements as well in this version. GPU Caps Viewer is a graphics card information utility focused on the OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL and CUDA API level support of the main (primary) graphics card.