Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR. The headline is: Khronos announced multiple conformant implementations of OpenXR are shipping from Oculus and Microsoft. That happened because of the newly opened OpenXR 1.0 Adopters Program and open-source conformance tests, which Khronos announced was coming after launching the OpenXR 1.0 specification last … [Read more...] about XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos
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Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing API announced
Familiar ray tracing API comes to Vulkan with some new features compared to DXR. Microsoft announced the development of a ray tracing extension to DirectX 12 called DXR in March 2018 at the same time that Nvidia introduced its RTX hardware ray tracing architecture. Cards using the RTX architecture shipped in the summer of 2018 when Nvidia introduced its revolutionary … [Read more...] about Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing API announced
Cesium gets down to earth on construction
Open source visualization tools enable realtime site monitoring. The data is out there and there’s more of it every second. With every trip around the sun, our world throws off data, much of it is geospatial data and images from satellites, cars, and mobile devices. Some of it is incidental, some of it is intentional like mapping, measuring, watching, etc. Cesium was founded … [Read more...] about Cesium gets down to earth on construction
Khronos and Smithsonian collaborate to distribute content
The glTF format is on the brink of ubiquity, maybe. The Khronos Organization is a consortium creating open interoperability standards to foster cross-platform development. Their roots are in OpenGL, so graphics will always hold a special place in the organization’s growing list of interests. Khronos has recently announced a collaboration with the Smithsonian on the Open … [Read more...] about Khronos and Smithsonian collaborate to distribute content
Ultraleap joins Khronos Group and the OpenXR Working Group
OpenXR is an open standard to provide high-performance, cross-platform access to VR and AR platforms and devices. Ultraleap is all in. Ultraleap has emerged as the offspring of the acquisition of Leap Motion by Ultrahaptics in the Spring of 2019. The merger joined two companies with different approaches to enable spatial interaction for digital devices. Ultrahaptics had the … [Read more...] about Ultraleap joins Khronos Group and the OpenXR Working Group
Visualizing data—analytic rendering via Khronos
The more you can see, the better you can analyze. Last month I wrote about a new book on Data science and visual computing. The book tells us, as we already well know, we are awash in data. It’s like the weather, we know it, we can’t manage it. We are struggling to get a grip on it, understand it, use it and exploit it, but it is being generated faster than we can harness … [Read more...] about Visualizing data—analytic rendering via Khronos
Khronos, the expandable
We’ve talked a lot about Open Source in conjunction with Siggraph, but Khronos owns a sizeable chunk of Siggraph mindshare with its multitude of open standards. We had an interesting talk with Neil Trevett of Khronos, who patiently explained to us once again what the difference is between Open Standards and Open Source. Khronos, as you know, manufactures Open Standards by … [Read more...] about Khronos, the expandable
Khronos Standards for Machine Learning
Open source is good: open source standards are better. By Peter McGuinness The Khronos Group has launched its new interoperability standard for neural networks. The Neural Network Exchange Format (NNEF) is an open, implementation-independent way to describe neural networks designed to cut through the current tangle of framework-specific formats. The new standard was … [Read more...] about Khronos Standards for Machine Learning
Khronos launches conformance test suite for SYCL 1.2.1
The SYCL Adopters Package provides an extensive testing suite to potential SYCL implementers. The Khronos Group, a non-profit open industry consortium dedicated to the creation of APIs, file formats, and other industry standards, has announced the launch of the SYCL Adopters Package, a program allowing SYCL 1.2.1 users to access an extensive new testing environment and upload … [Read more...] about Khronos launches conformance test suite for SYCL 1.2.1
Khronos builds out the ecosystem ready for NNEF launch
Bidirectional converters for Neural Network Exchange Format files will be made available as open source projects on Github. by Peter McGuinness Khronos last week announced the launch of a project with Au-zone of Calgary, Canada to produce two conversion tools that will allow developers to import NNEF files into TensorFlow and Caffe2 as well as export NNEF files from … [Read more...] about Khronos builds out the ecosystem ready for NNEF launch