Vulkanised is Back!
October 13-14, 2021
 This year's Vulkanised event will be a free, virtual event. The line-up includes Vulkan® case studies, two deep-dive SDK tutorials, updates on the Vulkan API, MoltenVK, ASTC, KTX™ 2, the Android GPU Inspector, and on open Q&A session with the leading experts in the industry. It's promises to be a highly instructive event with lots of great material.
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Influence the Evolution of Machine Learning Acceleration Standards
October 2021
 The Khronos® Group is inviting leading machine learning practitioners to an online Summit to influence how acceleration standards should evolve to meet their needs. You are invited to attend - we want to hear from you!
The goal of the online Summit is to enable a range of hardware and software vendors to briefly present what they believe are the key issues and opportunities for machine learning accelerating and interoperability, and to discuss those requirements with each other and Khronos members.
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WebGL & WebGPU Webinar
October 12, 2021
 The next WebGL™ + WebGPU meetup is next month. Agenda includes:
- Ken Russell, Google/Khronos WebGL WG Chair
- Updates on the latest progress from the Working Group
- Ivan Popelyshev, CrazyPanda
- How to draw line stroke in WebGL, with top performance (no MSAA) and quality equal to Canvas2D
- Tam Belayneh, ESRI
- Pushing 3D geospatial boundaries with WebGL
- Thomas Lucchini, Microsoft
- Our journey of porting the Babylon.js engine for WebGPU (approach, key phases and challenges of ensuring backward compatibility and performances), plus several demos
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The Vulkan SC Journey to Deliver Safety Critical Graphics and Compute
 The upcoming release of the Vulkan SC™ 1.0 specification by Khronos will mark an important milestone in developing an open API standard that leverages the performance of modern GPUs to satisfy the graphics and compute needs of future safety critical systems. As the Vulkan SC Working Group continues to make significant progress, we take the opportunity in this blog to share some of the challenges that have been overcome on our journey to define a state-of-the-art API specifically designed to benefit the automotive and avionics industries.
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Using Khronos Standards to Gamify Engineering Education
The Virtual Learning Factory Toolkit (VLFT) project is a pioneering program commissioned by the European Union using virtual and augmented reality to enhance engineering education programs across Europe. Five EU partners make up the VLFT Consortium, including Estonia’s Tallinna University of Technology, Hungary’s Institute for Computer Science and Control, Italy’s Politecnico di Milano, the National Research Council of Italy, and Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology. Using Khronos standards, the VLFT consortium has created a suite of tools to gamify learning, strengthen information and communication technology (ICT) skills, and better prepare students for jobs in 21st century manufacturing. More...
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New Vulkan 1.2.189.0 SDKs include new extensions and devsim updates
 LunarG released new Windows, Linux, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.189. These SDKs include support for many new extensions, devsim enhancements, and macOS updates. The prior SDK supported Vulkan API revision 1.2.182. Read on for information about the new extensions.
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SIGGRAPH 2021 Presentations
 Khronos presentations from SIGGRAPH 2021 are now available. Visit the event page for access to all the presentations.
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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. More...
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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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Heterogeneous Programming in Modern C++ with SYCL
November 1-3, 2021
 Heterogeneous Programming in Modern C++ with SYCL is a three-day online training course with programming exercises taught by Aksel Alpay, Gordon Brown, James Reinders, Michael Wong, Peter Zuzek, Rod Burns, and Ronan Keryell. It is offered online from 09:00 to 15:00 Aurora time (MDT), 11:00 to 17:00 EDT, 17:00 to 23:00 CET, Monday, November 1st through Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 (after the Cppcon conference). 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 (e.g. Artificial Intelligence-AI, interaction, haptics, 5G, streaming and more). More...
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