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Khronos Expands Scope of 3D Open Standard Ecosystem
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The Khronos Group announced significantly expanded scope and momentum for its family of open standard 3D graphics APIs. Vulkan™, the new generation API for high-efficiency access to graphics and compute on modern GPUs, is on track for implementation and specifications later this year. It has received support from Android, SteamOS, Tizen, and multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and Red Hat. The new OpenGL® ES 3.2 specification absorbs AEP (Android Extension Pack) functionality to enhance pervasive graphics capabilities across mobile, consumer, and automotive devices. A set of OpenGL extensions will also expose the very latest capabilities of desktop hardware.
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Khronos BOF Blitz is live streaming
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Aug 12, 2015
The Khronos Group BOF Blitz is live streaming all BOFs. Starting with “Accelerating Vision Processing” at 1PM PT followed by “Heterogeneous Computing” at 2PM and “3D Web Graphics” at 3:45PM. Finally, at 5:30PM there will be the “3D Graphics API State of the Union” BOF which will include Vulkan:
Debug and profile OpenGL 4.x on Linux with NVIDIA Linux Graphics Debugger 1.0
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Aug 11, 2015
The NVIDIA Developer Tools team is proud to announce the production release of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Debugger, a 3D graphics development tool that allows developers to debug and profile OpenGL 4.x on Linux, enabling professional graphics developers to get the most out of their NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro GPUs on a variety of Linux distributions.
NVIDIA announces OpenGL 2015 drivers for Windows and Linux
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Aug 10, 2015
To coincide with the release of OpenGL 2015 ARB extensions and OpenGL ES 3.2, NVIDIA is pleased to announce our OpenGL 2015 beta drivers are available for immediate download for Windows and Linux. Further details and driver downloads are available at the NVIDIA OpenGL website.
GLEW 1.13.0 adds support for new OpenGL extensions
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Aug 10, 2015
GLEW is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix) open-source C/C++ extension loading library for OpenGL. GLEW 1.13.0 adds support for new ARB, KHR, INTEL, NV and OVR extensions.
