The Khronos Group, an open consortium creating graphics and compute interoperability standards, and the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), the European industry association dedicated to vision technology, have jointly announced the formation of an Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group, open to all at no cost, to explore industry interest in the creation of open royalty-free API standards for controlling embedded cameras and sen...

The Khronos Group has announced the ratification and public release of the SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification. SYCL is a standard C++ based heterogeneous parallel programming framework for accelerating High Performance Computing (HPC), machine learning, embedded computing, and compute-intensive desktop applications on a wide range of processor architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and AI processors.

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating graphics and compute interoperability standards, publicly releases the OpenVG 1.1 Lite Provisional Specification for advanced 2D vector and raster high quality vector graphics, with conformance tests placed into open source under the Apache 2.0 license. OpenVG 1.1 Lite enables this high quality 2D vector graphics API to be fully accelerated by any OpenGL ES 2.0-compatible GPU f...

The Khronos Group has publicly released the OpenCL 3.0 Provisional Specifications. OpenCL 3.0 realigns the OpenCL roadmap to enable developer-requested functionality to be broadly deployed by hardware vendors, and it significantly increases deployment flexibility by empowering conformant OpenCL implementations to focus on functionality relevant to their target markets.

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating advanced interoperability standards, has announced the ratification and public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions, creating the first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration.

When it comes to augmented and virtual reality, we are in a veritable gold rush. Technologists in industries from retail to medical technology to gaming to manufacturing are scrambling to keep pace in the rapidly expanding world of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), collectively known as XR. By Brent Insko, OpenXR Working Group Chair, The Khronos Group