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Collada now recognized as ISO standard for 3D digital assets

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Randall Newton

Khronos Group also releases an upgrade to the OpenCollada import/export tool and SDK, and launches related projects.  Collada, the neutral ...

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Siggraph Asia drops anchor in Singapore

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Kathleen Maher

The digital content industry is headed to this English-speaking city-nation. Too bad more attendees didn’t find their way there. By ...

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Khronos updates OpenCL specification

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Randall Newton

New extensions include support for heterogeneous parallel computation in a web browser. The Khronos Group has released an update to the ...

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Casting a wide net for graphics industry pioneers at Siggraph Asia 2012

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GfxS staff

The annual reception for those with 20 or more years in CG fields is headed to Singapore November 30. The ...

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Time for 3D imagery to have its own codec

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Jon Peddie

Compression is a key technology for the advancement of 3D. The Khronos Group is pushing ASTC to take the industry ...

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Rightware introduces OpenGL ES 3.0 benchmark

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Randall Newton

OpenGL ES is becoming a graphics standard in mobile devices. The new benchmark will give manufacturers and software developers an ...

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Khronos struggles with keeping Collada relevant

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Kathleen Maher

The standards group responsible for the graphics exchange standard realizes content exchange is a huge challenge and that so far ...

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An Open Letter about the future of Collada from the Khronos Group

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GfxS staff

The growing use of Collada as an open, non-proprietary file format for 3D asset exchange presents new challenges and opportunities. ...

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New benchmark brings testing standards to OpenCL

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Randall Newton

Rightware says Basemark CL will improve all applications using GPUs for general purpose computation. Last year the Khronos Group introduced ...

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Khronos Group updates OpenCL

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Randall Newton

OpenCL is designed to empower graphics processing units for non-graphical computing. The additions to the consortium-driven Open Computing Language include ...