Using the New glTF Extensions: Volume, Index of Refraction, and Specular
 The Khronos® 3D Formats Working Group recently announced the ratification of three new Physically Based Rendering (PBR) extensions for the glTF™ 3D asset format: KHR_materials_volume, KHR_materials_ior, and KHR_materials_specular. The three new extensions build on and extend the existing glTF 2.0 PBR capabilities by adding volume-based absorption, refraction, and complex specular reflections. Some or all of these new extensions are already supported by rendering engines such as Babylon.js, Google’s Filament, and three.js, as well as applications including Adobe’s Substance 3D Stager, Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, DGG RapidCompact and UX3D’s Gestaltor. This blog will explore how these extensions are implemented and which variables will be available for artists to control.
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Khronos at SIGGRAPH 2021
August 9-13, 2021
 Be sure to catch the following Khronos BOFs at SIGGRAPH!
- August 10 at 1pm PDT - OpenXR™: On an HMD near you now!
- August 10 at 3pm PDT - 3D Commerce™: The art of business of using 3D models in retail at pervasive scale.
- August 11 at 10am PDT - An exploration of pervasive 3D in geospatial with glTF.
- August 11 at 1pm PDT - Vulkan® without boundaries: Case studies from the real world.
- August 12 at 10am PDT - Hands on with glTF: Making 3D pervasive.
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WebGL + WebGPU Meetup
July 13, 2021
 The last WebGL™ + WebGPU Meetup was a great success with updates from WebGL and WebGPU, porting WebGL codebase to WebGPU, updates on the glTF Sample Viewer and new glTF extensions for artists, leveraging multi-draw to speed up rendering, and a demonstration of enabling SRP Batcher with WebGL. The speakers' presentations and video have been posted here.
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CEDEC 2021
August 24-26, 2021
 CEDEC is the premier computer entertainment developers conference in Japan. Khronos session information will be coming soon. More...
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SYCL Summer Sessions 2021
September 6-9, 2021
 Join Codeplay for this year's SYCL Summer Sessions featuring the following sessions:
- Context Matters - Thomas Applencourt, Argonne National Laboratory
- A case study on SYCL productivity with a realtime 3D fluid simulation miniapp - Tom Lin, University of Bristol
- Fundamentals of porting code from CUDA to SYCL - Zheming Jin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Practical lessons porting from CUDA to SYCL - Michel Migdal, ENSIIE
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AI Hardware Summit
September 13-15, 2021
 We’re partnering with the AI Hardware Summit this year and many of our members are featured on the agenda. AI Hardware Summit is evolving as they continue their mission to help those who are accelerating AI workloads in the cloud and at the edge, and this year is about systems level AI acceleration. All Khronos members receive an exclusive discount of 15% by using "KHRONOS15" when registering. More...
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WebXR Business Summit
 September 14, 2021
The WebXR Business Summit provides a comprehensive overview of web-based spatial computing as it applies to sales, production, training, and maintenance. Khronos President, Neil Trevett, will be part of a panel discussion. More...
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X.Org Developer Conference
September 15-16, 2021
 Khronos is a proud sponsor of this year's X.Org Developer Conference. The agenda was just released with interesting Vulkan sessions. More...
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AutoSens Brussels
September 15-16, 2021
 AutoSens Brussels brings you a fresh agenda of expert panels, technical case studies, and an exhibition of demos from technology companies at the forefront of sensors and computer vision to explore.
Khronos members will be presenting:
- Distributed and Federated Data will Drive Autonomous Vehicles to Open Standards
- Panel Discussion: The Road to Embedded Camera API Standardization
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ISMAR 2021
October 4-8, 2021
 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) is the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). ISMAR explores the advances in commercial and research activities related to AR and MR and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope over the past several years. Khronos session information will be coming soon. More...
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Web3D 2021
November 8-12, 2021
 Khronos is happy to sponsor Web3D 2021. This year’s theme is “A Shared 3D Workspace” to emphasize the increasingly global scope and the wide impact of working together online, which has been the staple of the last year. More...
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AWE 2021
November 9-11, 2021
 Khronos is happy to sponsor AWE 2021. AWE focuses on Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), immersive technologies and enabling technologies (eg. Artificial Intelligence-AI, interaction, haptics, 5G, streaming and more). More...
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