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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16h

RE: fosstodon.org/@thekhronosgroup/1172… We wish to thank all of the people who have taken the time to complete the Khronos Safety Critical survey! Your thoughts will help reshape the future of safety critical software! If you haven't had the chance, you have until Friday […]

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Metaverse Standards Forum @metaverse.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18h

A couple of days ago Kexin Zhang & Yuhang Zhao from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented their work on inclusive avatar guidelines for people with disabilities. The session looked at how avatars can let people with disabilities represent themselves […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Ratified August 28, live in this webinar October 13: the first practical walkthrough of the glTF Interactivity Extension. Eva Ma (Meta), Felix Herbst (Needle Tools), Jim Eckerlein (UX3D), and Patrick Härtl (UX3D) walk through authoring interactive content in […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us on October 13 to learn more about the new glTF interactivity extension

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The OpenCL Working Group has published the OpenCL 3.1.2 specifications, finalizing the cl_khr_command_buffer extension alongside bug fixes and clarifications. Command buffers let applications record a sequence of commands once and replay it repeatedly, reducing CPU overhead and giving drivers […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The Khronos Group has issued an RFP for the OpenCL SDK maintenance. The OpenCL SDK is the Khronos-maintained open source collection of OpenCL samples, utility libraries, language bindings, continuous integration (CI) infrastructure, and the OpenCL Guide. It is […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The Khronos Group announced the establishment of Khronos AISBL, an international non-profit association headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. This new entity enables European organizations to include Khronos as a formal project partner in major EU-funded research […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

New European Khronos entity strengthens global standards collaboration

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

-- Khronos Safety Critical Survey -- Help shape the future of safety-critical GPU acceleration! Khronos is collecting requirements for Vulkan SC, SYCL SC & OpenGL SC. Survey closes Friday, Oct. 2. www.surveymonkey.com/r/8L6LPN2 #safetycritical #SYCL #Vulkan #OpenGL

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Khronos Group is headed to XDC 2026 (X.Org Developers Conference), Sept 28-30 in Toronto, as a Bronze Sponsor. Sessions cover Vulkan drivers, ray tracing, LLM inference via Vulkan, and OpenCL. Full details: www. khronos.org/events/xdc-2026 #XDC2026 #Vulkan #OpenCL #LLM

Join the Khronos Group at XDC 2026 for sessions on Vulkan and OpenCL

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Khronos has released OpenVX 1.3.2, an incremental update to the open, royalty-free standard for vision processing, sharpening error handling, API flexibility, and consistency ahead of OpenVX 2.0. Highlights: two new error codes , a new VX_DF_IMAGE_RGBA format […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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josh maurice @joshmaurice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

'an open, standards-based layer that lets any device connect to spatial services on demand 'built on open standards from #Khronos, #W3C, and #OGC @metaverse www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HzMmsDSnOA

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Khronos showed up big at SIGGRAPH 2026 in LA: 20+ sessions, hands-on courses, and BOFs, kicked off by Khronos Developer Day on July 22. Get access to recordings, slides, and see the full recap: www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-at-sig… #SIGGRAPH2026 #Vulkan #glTF #Slang #OpenXR

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

3D Formats member, Adam Morris (Bentley Systems/Cesium) sits down with host Muthu Kumar (Geoawesome) to break down how 3D Gaussian Splatting works, why it outperforms traditional 3D models in complex visual inspection tasks, and how ‪Khronos is standardizing the technology via a new glTF […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

OpenXR just launched tiered Adopter Program fees based on company size, lowering the cost of official conformance for smaller XR hardware, runtime, and SDK makers — same technical bar, wider access. Details […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

OpenXR Introduces Tiered Adopter Fees to Expand its Ecosystem of Conformant Implementations

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

In the runup to today's Real-Time Shading BOF at #SIGGRAPH2026, Khronos has released the Shader Ecosystem Survey Results. The results provide a summary of insights from over 400 shader developers, graphics programmers, rendering engineers, and tools creators […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

SIGGRAPH 2026 is well underway and we just held the Khronos Fast Forward to a great crowd! There's plenty left! Check-out our event's page for full list of Khronos activities: www.khronos.org/events/siggraph-2026 #Siggraph2026 #Khronos

Khronos President, Neil Trevett, leads the Khronos Fast Forward at SIGGRAPH 2026

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

SIGGRAPH 2026 is here! If you're at LACC or the JW Marriott this week, don't miss: Khronos Fast-Forward (Mon, 1pm) for a rapid-fire tour of Vulkan, Slang, OpenXR, glTF, ANARI, and WebGL/WebGPU — plus deep-dives throughout the week on The State of Vulkan, glTF 2.1 and Beyond, OpenXR's move into […]

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Vulkan @vulkan.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

*Turn Cloud and Local LLMs into a genuine engineering teammate.* This series is about "Collaborative Engineering" — using AI deliberately and rigorously, not just autocomplete. It sets up an AI-enhanced toolchain, teaches you to pick and specialize models for […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

New Vulkan Tutorial: AI-Assisted Vulkan Development

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

The Khronos Group today announced that the KHR_interactivity extension for glTF 2.0 has been submitted for ratification. As interactive 3D content becomes central to a growing range of markets, KHR_interactivity lets creators build portable, self-contained […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

KHR_interactivity extension submitted for ratification

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Announcing Vulkanised 2027 and Real-Time Shading Symposium 2027 The Khronos Group today announced dates and venue for two co-located events in Kortrijk, Belgium: Vulkanised 2027 (February 8–10) and the Real-Time Shading Symposium 2027 (February 11–12). Both […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Call for submissions issued for Vulkanised 2027 and the Real-Time Shading Symposium 2027

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Khronos is heading to SIGGRAPH 2026, July 19-23 in Los Angeles, with a full week of courses, BOFs, and community events. The centerpiece is Wednesday, July 22 — our biggest BOF day of the conference, packed with back-to-back sessions covering the full breadth […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Vulkan @vulkan.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

*Take your Vulkan renderer into stereo, headset, and beyond.* The most expansive series in the collection, walking from the OpenXR/Vulkan 1.3 handshake all the way to multi-GPU CAVE installations and light-field rendering — everything needed to ship real […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Vulkan Tutorial: OpenXR and Vulkan 1.3 Spatial Computing

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Vulkan @vulkan.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

*From rigged mesh to a living, physically-simulated character* New Advanced glTF tutorial series: GPU compute skinning, ragdoll physics, procedural IK, and bindless facial morph targets — a real production pipeline, not just a demo scene […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

New Vulkan Tutorial - Advanced glTF: High-Performance Character Pipelines

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Vulkan @vulkan.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Vulkanised 2027, the 9th Vulkan Developer Conference, heads to Kortrijk, Belgium on February 8–10, 2027, hosted by HOWEST University of Applied Sciences. We're looking for talks from application developers, Vulkan implementers, framework builders, and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Call for submissions has opened for Vulkanised 2027 being held in Kortrijk, Belgium February 8-10, 2027.

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

The Khronos Group has sponsored the glTF 2.0 Importer/Exporter for Autodesk 3ds Max open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license, and today has released the resulting glTF importer and exporter plugins, built to professional standards in collaboration with […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Khronos sponsors open-source glTF importer/exporter for Autodesk 3ds Max

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

If you're at SIGGRAPH 2026, don't miss the Real-Time Shading BOF — Tuesday, July 21, 1:00–3:00 PM PDT, Room 518 Special guest speaker, Ken Perlin, will be presenting, "The birth of Procedural Shaders." Don't miss it! […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Real-Time Shading Birds of a Feather at SIGGRAPH Featuring Ken Perlin

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Khronos Group Welcomes Bolt Graphics as Contributor Member Bolt Graphics is a semiconductor startup building the fastest and most efficient graphics processors. We pride ourselves on our first principles approach to solving problems. We are energized by our mission to reduce the barrier of […]

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Vulkan @vulkan.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Vulkan is deprecating host-side ray tracing acceleration structure builds. #Vulkan is consolidating around a single, device-address-based path for acceleration structure builds, moving away from the host-side commands introduced back in 2020. If you're still […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Vulkan Ray Tracing deprecates host-side acceleration structure builds

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@thekhronosgroup/1168… We would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to fill out a Real-Time Shader survey. We've had a tremendous response. If you haven't had a chance to complete the survey, there's still time. The survey closes this Friday.

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

The Khronos Group is running a survey on the broader shader ecosystem — languages, tools, pain points, and where standardization is needed most. If you write shading code in any language (Slang, HLSL, GLSL, WGSL, etc.), your input helps shape where Khronos focuses next. Results will be shared […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

We are live at #AWE2026! Come see us in Booth #1041 and talk to us about the latest news for glTF, OpenXR, Vulkan and the OMBI Sneeze metaverse browser. We also have cool luggage tags you can pick up. Learn more about Khronos' activities at AWE […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

If you're at AWE, be sure to drop by booth # 1041 and say hi

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Khronos has formed a Volumetric Media Subgroup to extend glTF for interoperability across the volumetric pipeline — capture, encoding, streaming, and playback. The effort includes a liaison agreement with the Volumetric Format Association, which will adopt glTF […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Khronos extending glTF to handle volumetric media

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

The Khronos Group has announced glTF 2.1, a backward-compatible revision of the core spec focused on one goal: making glTF work as well for large, composed scenes as it does for single assets. New in 2.1: external asset references, scene packaging, bounding […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Introducing glTF 2.1 with complex scenes

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Metaverse Standards Forum @metaverse.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

The Metaverse Standards Forum is heading to AWE 2026 in Long Beach (June 15-18) and we have a lot to share. We'll be showcasing OMBI -- the Open Metaverse Browser Initiative -- and Sneeze, the open-source metaverse browser engine. Join us for two sessions at […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

The presentations and video recordings from IWOCL 2026 are now available on the conference program page. IWOCL 2026 brought together researchers and practitioners advancing OpenCL, SYCL, and heterogeneous computing. This year's program covered portability […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Proceedings from IWOCL 2026 now available!

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Khronos will host a WebGL+WebGPU BOF at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 22 at 9:00 AM. (Full schedule coming soon.) Do you have a product or demo based on these APIs that you would like to share with the attendees? If so, please email events@khronosgroup.org and we'll get you on […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Join developers and integrators from around the world at the 2026 Cesium Developer Conference in Philadelphia, where the community comes together to shape the future of open geospatial technologies. Khronos' glTF and work in Gaussian Splatting will be featured […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Cesium Developer Conference kicks off June 8-10 in Philadelphia

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Boris @boris.ashlande.rs.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Three.js 184 is out! Lots of great enhancements, and a tiny tweak from me! You can now use webp textures across the whole GLTF pipeline. All changes: github.com/mrdoob/three.js/releases… Example: threejs.org/examples/?q=gltf#misc_e… #ThreeJS #3D #JavaScript […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

The Vulkan SC SDK is now available -- one installer, all the tools you need for safety-critical graphics development on Linux and Windows. Less setup friction, more time building […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

OpenCL 3.1 is here. The Khronos Group has moved several capabilities into the core spec, including SPIR-V kernels, subgroups, and integer dot products. Also includes improvements to the memory model and synchronization, plus better alignment with Vulkan via device UUID queries […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Khronos Group Welcomes Esri as a Contributor Member! Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. Esri has supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what they […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

The OpenCL Working Group has published the first in a series of cooperative matrix extensions — and your feedback can help shape them before finalization. cl_khr_cooperative_matrix brings cooperative matrix load, store, and multiply-add to OpenCL, developed with Arm, Intel, and Qualcomm. A […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

IWOCL 2026 is next week! Join the global OpenCL and SYCL community in Heilbronn, Germany (May 6–8) for the premier forum dedicated to open compute languages and heterogeneous platform programming. The program includes the latest technical talks, Khronos […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us next week at IWOCL 2026 in Heilbronn, Germany!

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

The countdown is on — IWOCL 2026 is just two weeks away. Join the global OpenCL and SYCL community in Heilbronn, Germany (May 6–8) for the premier forum dedicated to open compute languages and heterogeneous platform programming. Expect the latest technical […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us in 2 weeks for IWOCL 2026! Check out the packed agenda at www.iwocl.org

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Welcome Meta to the Khronos Group Board of Directors! Meta has upgraded their membership from Contributor to Promoter — our highest membership tier — bringing with it a seat on the Board and a deeper commitment to shaping the future of open standards. We're […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Meta upgrades membership level and appoints Ron Bessems to Khronos Group Board of Directors

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Khronos Group's OpenVX Working Group have released two new extensions, Target Kernel and Node Command, to tackle efficiently distributing computation across dedicated hardware, and adapting processing pipelines dynamically at runtime without touching the data […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

Join us at IWOCL 2026 to hear from Professor Hu He of Tsinghua University. Professor Hu will present on utilizing OpenCL to build the foundation for computing in China. IWOCL 2026 takes place May 6–8 in Heilbronn, Germany. Learn more and register […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us at IWOCL to hear from Professor Hu He from Tsinghua University's talk on utilizing OpenCL to build the foundation for computing in China

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

The Khronos OpenXR Extension Matrix now includes middleware support data from Godot, LÖVR, StereoKit, Unity, and Unreal Engine — so developers can see exactly what's available across the full XR stack. khronos.org/blog/khronos-adds-middleware-insights-to-the-openxr-extension-matrix #OpenXR #XR […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

🎉 OpenXR 1.1.58 released! 🎉 Lots of extensions, including two new ratified multi-vendor extensions, XR_EXT_view_configuration_views_change and XR_EXT_interaction_profile_battery_state_display. See registry.khronos.org/OpenXR for links to the updated specification, reference pages, and […]

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Khronos Group @thekhronosgroup.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Khronos Group is hosting a free webinar on Gaussian Splats in glTF — featuring speakers from Cesium, XGRIDS, and the Smithsonian on real-world use cases in geospatial, capture workflows, and cultural preservation. April 7 | 7:00 AM PDT | Free, online […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us next week for the next webinar on Gaussian Splatting on April 7

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