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Khronos standardizes texture compression in KTX 2.0

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Jon Peddie

The democratization of the texture zoo means textures take up less space and can be automatically uncompressed at runtime.  Over ...

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The rays of Khronos reach everywhere

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Jon Peddie

From gaming to CAD and holograph displays. In 2018, before there were pandemics, vicious nation-splitting election campaigns, and the biggest ...

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XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos

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Jon Peddie

Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR. The headline is: Khronos announced multiple conformant implementations of ...

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Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing API announced

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Jon Peddie

Familiar ray tracing API comes to Vulkan with some new features compared to DXR. Microsoft announced the development of a ...

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Cesium gets down to earth on construction

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Kathleen Maher

Open source visualization tools enable realtime site monitoring. The data is out there and there’s more of it every second. ...

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Khronos and Smithsonian collaborate to distribute content

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Kathleen Maher

The glTF format is on the brink of ubiquity, maybe. The Khronos Organization is a consortium creating open interoperability standards ...

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Ultraleap joins Khronos Group and the OpenXR Working Group

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Kathleen Maher

OpenXR is an open standard to provide high-performance, cross-platform access to VR and AR platforms and devices. Ultraleap is all ...

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Visualizing data—analytic rendering via Khronos

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Jon Peddie

Rendering, and especially realtime ray tracing can impact data visualization by providing physically accurate imagery and visual cues for an intuitive understanding of complex data, but it's a tall order. Khronos is taking input for a possible new platform independent standard.

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Khronos, the expandable

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Kathleen Maher

We’ve talked a lot about Open Source in conjunction with Siggraph, but Khronos owns a sizeable chunk of Siggraph mindshare ...

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Khronos Standards for Machine Learning

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GfxS staff

Open source is good: open source standards are better. By Peter McGuinness The Khronos Group has launched its new interoperability standard ...