The democratization of the texture zoo means textures take up less space and can be automatically uncompressed at runtime. Over the years of computer graphics, stretching back to Ed Catmull’s pioneering 1974 paper that introduced the concept of subdivision, wrapping, and unwrapping, the CG industry has been trying to find ways to make texture mapping faster and more efficient … [Read more...] about Khronos standardizes texture compression in KTX 2.0
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The rays of Khronos reach everywhere
From gaming to CAD and holograph displays. In 2018, before there were pandemics, vicious nation-splitting election campaigns, and the biggest GPU ever, a small group of ray-loving engineers got together to change and save the world. In early 2018, the Vulkan Working Group formed the Vulkan Ray Tracing Task Subgroup (TSG in Khronos kode). Its goal was to enable a focused … [Read more...] about The rays of Khronos reach everywhere
XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos
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
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