The Khronos Group

Khronos and leading Gaussian Splats organizations come together to add 3D Gaussian Splats to the glTF Asset Standard

Khronos, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Niantic Spatial, Cesium and Esri come together to add 3D Gaussian Splats to the glTF Asset standard!

khr.io/1lp
#Gaussian #splats #glTF

Inaugural Shading Languages Symposium Call for Submissions

Khronos has announced the inaugural Shading Languages Symposium will take place on February 12-13, 2026, in San Diego to explore the current state and future development of #shading languages and real-time #rendering technologies.

Learn more: khr.io/1le
#glsl #hlsl #osl #slang #spirv #wgsl

Introducing Asset Creation Guidelines 2.0 for 3D commerce

Introducing Asset Creation Guidelines 2.0 for Commerce-Ready glTF Assets!

The Creation Guidelines is a comprehensive and continuously updated resource designed to help 3D artists create photorealistic, commerce-ready assets for web!

khr.io/1ld
#3d #gltf

Join ANARI at SIGGRAPH and learn more about ANARI 1.1

The Khronos ANARI (Analytic Rendering Interface) Working Group is excited to share developments as we approach SIGGRAPH 2025, including a first look at ANARI 1.1 updates! Be sure to join us on Wednesday!

Learn more about ANARI 1.1 Features: khr.io/1lg
#analytics #API #rendering

Attend the Khronos Networking Reception—Wed, Aug 13, 6‑9 PM! Sponsored by LunarG, Cesium and NVIDIA.

Connect with Khronos members, enjoy demos, and network informally over refreshments.

RSVP for tickets: www.khronos.org/events/siggr...
#networking #SIGGRAPH2025

In case you missed last week's Special SDO Session on low latency delivery of metaverse applications, the session is now ready for viewing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-0...
#L4S #latency #network

If you missed last week's roundtable, the recording is now available: youtu.be/b98H2A04SKw

Join WebGL and WebGPU at SIGGRAPH for an exciting session with the latest news straight from the working groups driving the future of high-performance graphics and compute on the web.

Learn more: khr.io/1lc
#webgl #webgpu #siggraph2025

Come join us at SIGGRAPH!

The Gaussian Splats: Ready for Standardization Town Hall will commence on Tuesday, 12 August 2025 at 10:45am

This workshop seeks to guide the evolution of Gaussian splat interoperability.

www.khronos.org/events/siggr...

Join us at SIGGRAPH 2025! If you're working with 3D asset pipelines, real-time engines, or XR content delivery, don't miss this session:

State of 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF
Monday, August 12 | 2:00–3:30pm PDT

metaverse-standards.org/event/siggra...
#USD #glTF #standards

We have joined the Khronos Group as a Contributor member! Together, we’re advancing open standards in Geospatial AI & 3D content, including breakthrough techniques like Gaussian Splatting. Let’s build the next-generation map—open, intelligent, and immersive.

🔗 www.nianticspatial.com/blog/khronos...

OpenCL 3.0.19 Specification maintenance update released with two new extensions: cl_khr_spirv_queries and cl_khr_external_memory_android_hardware_buffer plus more: registry.khronos.org/OpenCL

Khronos has released SPIR-V 1.6.6. This is a maintenance release with fixes, clarifications, and enumerant reservations. registry.khronos.org/SPIR-V/specs...

This Thursday at 12pm, Khronos President, Neil Trevett, will be speaking at International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium's 3D Community Group call. Neil will be discussing synergies around 3D interoperability and potential future collaboration

Call details: iiif.io/community/gr...

This session is TOMORROW! Please join us for a "getting started" session on the Slang reflection API! Registration info at this link.

Join Khronos for a live roundtable on the critical role of standards in the evolving AI landscape. This session will share preliminary insights from the Khronos AI Ecosystem Research Project.

See agenda and register: www.khronos.org/events/build...
#AI #machine #learning #acceleration #standards

Khronos Group's Dennis Fu presented at this year's Huawei Developer Conference held in Songshan Lake, China. Dennis gave two presentations: AR/VR for OpenXR and Graphics and Gaming for Vulkan/glTF.

YouTube video by High-Performance Graphics HPG 2025: Day 1 - June 23rd

Video of Shannon's talk at HPG is now available!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPWD...

Getting Started with Slang: Reflections API

Next in the Getting Started with Slang series, we have a webinar on the Reflections API. Join us on July 8th as we explain the underlying mental model for how #Slang reflects shader code.

Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#shader #API #reflections

Cesium Developer Conference 2025 Cesium Developer Conference

We are excited to be a part of @CesiumJS's Developer Conference this week! We hope to see you there.

cesium.com/events/cesiu...

High-Performance Graphics 2025 High-Performance Graphics 2025 - June 23-25 Copenhagen

Hi Copenhagen! I'm excited to be giving the first of the Hot3D talks tomorrow at HPG. Hope to see some of my fellow graphics nerds there!

highperformancegraphics.org/2025/program...

OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Standardize Surfaces, Markers, Anchors & Persistence The new OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions standardize surface detection, marker tracking, spatial anchors, and persistence.

The new OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions standardize surface detection, marker tracking, spatial anchors, and persistence:

The Khronos Group warmly welcomes Niantic Spatial as a Contributor member!

It's the last day at #AWE2025! Be sure to visit Khronos Group members: LunarG, Unity and Qualcomm!

Be sure to visit Khronos members Pico and VNTANA in booth 417, 202A at #AWE2025!

Attending AWE? Be sure to stop by and visit us in booth 510! Check out our event page for more information on glTF and 3D Commerce panels, as well as a session on OpenXR.

Learn more: www.khronos.org/events/awe-2...
#AWE #AWE25

VisIt Embraces ANARI for Advanced Scientific Visualization VisIt, the open-source scientific visualization tool developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is entering a new era of advanced rendering. In a collaborative effort between LLNL’s V...

VisIt, the open-source scientific visualization tool developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), embraces ANARI for advanced scientific visualization.

khr.io/1j0

OpenVX new extensions deliver enhanced graph pipelining, tensor views of images, and sub-image array support. In this post, we’ll explore what’s new, why it matters, and how developers can benefit.

khr.io/1iz
#openvx #tensor #computervision #machinelearning

The recording of this talk has been posted! We got some great questions during Q&A. Check it out if you weren't able to attend in person! youtu.be/oGAzYih8I3Q?...

Did you know that Slang has a Discord server? Join the discussion: khr.io/slangdiscord