The Khronos Group will be at SIGGRAPH 2018. This year, Khronos is presenting a full day of BOFs covering Vulkan, WebGL, OpenXR, OpenGL, glTF and OpenGL ES, and a Networking Reception after the Khronos sessions on Wednesday, August 15. Details on all the sessions can be found on our SIGGRAPH page.

The glTF session at SIGGRAPH may only be 50 minutes long, but it will be action packed. Don’t miss this years fast moving glTF session with these speakers:

• Ecosystem update: Patrick Cozzi, Cesium
• glTF for artists: Patrick Ryan, Microsoft
• TurboSquid - Beau Perschall
• Facebook - Pär Winzell
• Microsoft - Gary Hsu and Cedric Caillaud
• STK - Alex Wood, AGI
• VSCode - Ed Mackey, AGI
• Industrial AR with glTF - Johannes Beh, Fraunhofer
• Google Draco - Frank Galligan
• Texture transmission - Mark Callow
• IKEA - Martin Enthed

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The Khronos Group was at SIGGRAPH Asia this year with talks from several Khronos members including NVIDIA and Unity, as well as a talk from the Khronos Melbourne Chapter Leader. Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group, gave an overview of the Khronos ecosystem. If you are interested in learning more about Khronos standards for 3D, VR, AR and Neural Networks, be sure to take a few minutes to read Neil’s presentation.

Neil Trevett, President of The Khronos Group, talks to Architosh in this two-part series about OpenGL and the future of graphics standards. On the eve of SIGGRAPH 2017 Neil Trevett spoke to Architosh about the evolving OpenGL standard as well as directions the group is taking to plot a path for a universal graphics API that engages the use of low-level APIs. Read more about why OpenGL isn’t packing for retirement just yet a the key thing in OpenGL 4.6 is SPIR-V is part of core.

In early August the Khronos team was at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, where we celebrated OpenGL’s 25th anniversary at the BOF Blitz Party. We also announced a new website, as well as OpenGL 4.6, a growing glTF ecosystem, and the Vulkan Portability Initiative. Learn more about BOF Blitz.

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

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.

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.

The Khronos Group announces from the SIGGRAPH 2017 Conference the immediate public availability of the OpenGL 4.6 specification. OpenGL 4.6 integrates the functionality of numerous ARB and EXT extensions created by Khronos members AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA into core, including the capability to ingest SPIR-V shaders. Learn more about this release. Khronos encourages and welcomes all feedback on the new specification.

The Khronos Group has updated the Birds of a Feather schedule and speaker list. If you will be at #SIGGRAPH2017 be sure to visit the BOF Blitz and After Party! BOFs include: OpenVX, NNEF, OpenCL and SYCL; COLLADA; glTF; WebGL; OpenXR; and Vulkan, OpenGL & OpenGL ES to wrap up the day. glTF has just posted their list of speakers, and what a line they have for you in store for you. At the end of the day, be sure to hang around for the BOF Blitz After-Party. The BOFs will be live streamed with video available afterwards, and t-shirts available online, for all those folks not attending.

Researchers at CMU and NVIDIA have developed an open source shading language and compiler framework named Spire enhanced to support shader components for high-performance rendering. The Spire compiler can generate either GLSL or SPIR-V output for use with OpenGL and Vulkan based engines. The work interfaces with a modernmini 3D engine that supports equivalent back-ends for both OpenGL and Vulkan. The researchers will present this year’s work at SIGGRAPH next week which builds on a paper from last year’s SIGGRAPH.

Attending SIGGRAPH 2017 next week? OpenGL developers should attend this free NVIDIA session on Monday, July 31 to get the most out of OpenGL on Quadro, GeForce, and Tegra GPUs. Hear from an OpenGL expert at NVIDIA how the OpenGL continues to evolve. See how NVIDIA’s Nsight developer tools make OpenGL development easier for you. Learn how your application can benefit from NVIDIA advancing OpenGL as a cross-platform, open industry standard. See this schedule for a complete list of NVIDIA content at SIGGRAPH.