The Khronos Group’s ANARI Working Group has issued a Request for Proposal. The working group has developed the ANARI software development kit (SDK) which needs an associated conformance test suite (CTS) to validate vendor implementations against the specification through the SDK. This project will develop a project plan with the ANARI working group for implementing the ANARI CTS. All submissions must be sent to [email protected] by 5PM PT on Friday May 27th, 2022. Please see a complete list of our RFPs here.

Fixstars is a software company devoted to “Speed up your Business”. Through its software parallelization/optimization expertise, its highly effective use of multi-core processors, and application acceleration for the next generation of memory technology that delivers high speed IO as well as power savings, Fixstars provides “Green IT,” while accelerating customers’ business in various fields.

With the release of Portable Computing Language (POCL) 3.0-RC1, there is now initial support for OpenCL 3.0 running on CPUs with LLVM 14+. In addition, LLVM/Clang 14 support and improved tracing, scripts for converting traces into Chromium trace visualizer format are new major features.

The Virtual Dimension Center is Germany’s leading network for Virtual Engineering. Since 2002, the VDC creates synergies between the network members and supports technology transfer. Today, approximately 100 members and partners - among them research institutions, technology suppliers, service providers, users and multipliers - are working in the topics of Simulation, Visualisation, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Virtual Reality (VR) along the whole value chain Virtual Engineering together. Hence they benefit of a higher Innovation activity and productivity due to information and cost advantages compared to companies outside the network. The competitive advantages are a result of transparent competences, raised information flow and easier business contacts.

The New York Times Research and Development team applies emerging technologies in service of our company’s mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Using new technologies and formats, we develop technical capabilities for our newsroom and new forms of storytelling for our readers. As part of our method, we evaluate emerging trends in media and technology and forecast how they might play out over the next two to three years. Once we identify an opportunity, we dedicate a team to exploring the space and developing products in collaboration with other parts of our organization.

Khronos Group President, Neil Trevett, sat down with VentureBeat’s George Lawton to discuss the evolution of glTF, what it does, and what lies ahead.

NaturalPoint, Inc. was founded in 1997 to develop and bring to market high quality image tracking technology and unique computer control devices. Now the largest motion capture provider in the world, NaturalPoint offers high-performance optical tracking solutions at the most affordable prices in the industry. As a result, it has become the favorite of industry leaders in VR, drones, game and film production, university education and research, engineering, robotics, industrial measurement, life science, sports performance, injury prevention, and many others.

Join Host/Moderator Larry Rosenthal, Vice Chair of LA Siggraph as they welcome Industry Leaders from the Companies that are creating, building and selling the tools for the Metaverse. This webinar will focus on the Software and tool Platforms and will be presented via Zoom and have a Live VR Meet and Greet afterwards online in the LA SIGGRAPH VR Campus.

It was announced on GPUOpen that AMD has added support for the ANARI 1.0 provisional specification on Radeon ProRender.

In this in-depth interview, RedGamingTech sits down with Khronos President, Neil Trevett, to discuss Vulkan and Vulkan 1.3, including upscaling, and revolutionary new tech such as glTF, OpenXR, and the importance of interoperability, and why having a single open source solution is SO important for gaming. Topics include Khronos’ Vulkan, DirectX 12 (including DirectStorage), upsampling / upscaling, how OpenXR could benefit virtual reality / VR devices and more.

At the recent GTC 2022 Conference NVIDIA released multiple initiatives to boost the productivity of Vulkan developers. The new NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2022.2 system-wide performance analysis tool supports the new Vulkan graphics pipeline library extension and Vulkan memory operations. NVIDIA’s new Streamline open-source, cross-IHV framework can be used to integrate multiple super-resolution technologies into Vulkan games and applications. And lastly, NVIDIA’s new Cloud Playtest virtual development environment that builds on GeForce NOW infrastructure enables the coordination and observation of playtests for Vulkan games without physical hardware or presence.

OpenCL 3.0.11 adds two new extensions and continues the regular release cadence for specification bug fixes and clarifications. The cl_khr_subgroup_rotate extension enables an OpenCL kernel to rotate values among work-items in a subgroup for increased data exchange efficiency in many algorithms. The cl_khr_work_group_uniform_arithmetic extension enables an OpenCL kernel to use new work-group scan and reduction operators which can boost the performance of many use cases—and is ideal to accelerate C++ scan and reduction functions in SYCL 2020 implementations targeting OpenCL as a backend.