Vulkan Ray Tracing
 The Khronos® Group ratified and released the Vulkan® Ray Tracing provisional extensions, creating the industry’s first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. Primarily focused on meeting desktop market demand for both real-time and offline rendering, the release of Vulkan Ray Tracing as provisional extensions enables the developer community to provide feedback before the specifications are finalized. Comments and feedback will be collected through the Vulkan GitHub Issues Tracker and Khronos Developer Slack. Developers are encouraged to share comments with their preferred hardware vendors. The specifications are available today on the Vulkan Registry.
The Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing Task Sub Group (TSG) wrote a detailed blog to accommodate the release of the Ray Tracing provisional extensions. In the blog, the Vulkan Ray Tracing TSG gives an overview of each extension and provides links to more resources.
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The Latest Vulkan Educational Resources
We often hear that developers would like a single location to find all the available resources for learning Vulkan, so we created a list of the most up-to-date and valuable set of resources available. We've made good progress on new resources, releasing the Vulkan Code Samples, which we encourage developers of all skill levels to explore.
However, there is always more we can do to improve the state of available educational resources so expect more from us this year. In particular, with many events cancelled or delayed in 2020, we will be exploring ways to take that educational content online to make sure developers don't miss out on the valuable insight these event session's provide. We will continue to expand this list moving forward which you can find here.
In addition to the educational resources, Vulkan has recently announced an update to the Vulkan Guide. The Vulkan Guide is designed to help developers get up and going with the world of Vulkan. It is aimed to be a light read that leads to many other useful links depending on what a developer is looking for, and now the guide has been updated to include 1.1 and 1.2 extensions.
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Learning from Home with 3D Content
 In the last several weeks, learning has moved from the classroom into the home, as schools across the world have temporarily closed.
The old way of learning involved reading textbooks or consuming content delivered through paper handouts. Sometimes live specimens or scale models could be used to enliven lesson plans, but this delivery method involved complex preparations and procurement of live specimens, as well as other costly materials. Now with 3D models, things have changed.
See full story with new 3D models from Simply Augmented...
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Khronos Presenting at Laval Virtual World 2020
April 22-24, 2020
Virtual
Facing Covid-19, conferences, awards, meetings and the Art & VR Gallery of the Recto VRso Festival will be made available for free. A wonderful opportunity to gather and learn while staying at home.
Register and join the conference to hear about OpenXR from Collabora's Ryan Pavlik and a Keynote address by Khronos President, Neil Trevett.
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Join Us at IWOCL / SYCLcon 2020
April 27-29, 2020
Virtual
15:00 - 18:00 GMT
The 8th International Workshop on OpenCL™, including SYCLcon 2020, has been rescheduled as a virtual event. Registrants can view recorded talks and join in on live webinars. The newest conference program is now available, including information on the Khronos panel discussion, an introduction to SYCL™, application development with SYCL, and more.
Click here to register.
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Khronos is Sponsoring XR Immersive Enterprise 2020
May 5-7, 2020
Virtual
Khronos is a sponsor of XR Immersive Enterprise. The event is purpose built to look at how virtual, augmented & mixed reality are transforming training, collaboration, design, manufacturing and marketing across industries.
Khronos members' exclusive discount code is 5107KHRON100. Click here to register.
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Khronos Presenting at AWE
May 26-29, 2020
Virtual
Khronos will be presenting at this year's AWE! Hear from those solving major technical challenges, bringing AR/VR into new sectors, considering ethical and legal issues, promoting diversity, and working on the cutting edge of AR/VR development. AWE is a virtual event.
Discover what Khronos will be presenting and get your discount code here!
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Introducing OpenCL and OpenGL on DirectX
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Mozilla Posts WebGL Best Practices
 WebGL™ is a complicated API, and it's often not obvious what the recommended ways to use it are. This page tackles recommendations across the spectrum of expertise, and not only highlights dos and don'ts, but also details why. Read more... |
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices - Management of Command Buffers and Multi-Threaded Recording
 One way to take advantage of all the CPU cores available to us is to implement multi-threaded recording of draw calls. In tile-based renderers (found in most mobile GPUs), the best approach to split the draw calls is to record them in secondary command buffers. This way they can all be submitted to the same render pass and take advantage of tile-local memory. Read more... |
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TurboSquid Officially Introduces 3D Asset Management Platform with glTF
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How Augmented and Virtual Reality Will Change the Future of Retail
 When people think of augmented and virtual reality (also known as AR/VR or, more commonly, XR when referred to together), video games that are futuristic and larger than life usually come to mind. But as a platform, XR actually has the potential to be more profound than just next-level entertainment; in fact, the burgeoning technology is rapidly disrupting many diverse industries. Read more... |
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Portable Computing Language (PoCL) v1.5 released
 Portable Computing Language (PocL) has released version 1.5 with added support for LLVM and Clang 10.0. Read more... |
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NVIDIA Vulkan Raytracing Sample
The focus of this project and the provided code is to showcase a basic integration of ray tracing within an existing Vulkan sample, using the VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension. Read more... |
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LunarG releases OpenXR overlay extension open source implementation
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Amazon Sumerian supports exporting your scenes to glTF
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NVIDIA Provides OpenGL-accelerated Remote Desktop for GeForce
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Video Series: glTF Model Authoring Pipeline
 In this video series, AGI creates a glTF 3D model of a Cubesat from reference images, using Blender, VSCode, and other tools. A walk through the glTF model authoring and texturing process from scratch to a finished result, and AGI shows the result being used in STK and other apps that consume glTF models. Read more... |
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Oculus Releases OpenXR Mobile SDK
 The OpenXR Mobile SDK includes the resources necessary to use the OpenXR API for native development of VR apps for Oculus Quest. OpenXR offers an alternate development path that allows developers to create portable code that can be used on devices from multiple vendors. Read more... |
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 Vulkan Specification v1.2.137 Released
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New Vulkan 1.2 SDKs Support Provisional Ray Tracing Extension
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