New from VESA, and why it matters
The Video Electronics Standards Association announces DisplayPort updates and extensions for gaming and the automotive market at CES 2024.
OpenUSD in the hands of a newly launched alliance
AOUSD will work on expanding and advancing the open 3D framework.
Metaverse Standards Forum, Incorporated
Becomes independent consortium.
Video victory inside Vulkan, voilà
Validation layers for accelerated H.264 and H.265 decode.
2023: A brand-new world all over again
Let’s try this again, but there are reasons to be optimistic.
Khronos adds node graphing to glTF
The flexibility is needed at all levels.
SPEC updates benchmark for Solidworks
The benchmark measures application performance for workstations running Solidworks 2022. (Source: SPEC) The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) today, September 15, has released the SPECapc for Solidworks 2022 benchmark, an add-in benchmark for performance desktops running Dassault Systèmes’ Solidworks CAD/CAM software. The SPECapc for Solidworks 2022 benchmark comes with 10 models and 53 tests—two new tests from the prior version—covering … Read more
The US seeks a more balanced scale in global semiconductor production
(Source: Amazon) It often takes a crisis or near crisis to draw attention to a situation that has been unchecked for some time. Supply shortages across the board during Covid shed light on the dangers of reliance on other countries for certain products as well as too much reliance on JIT, which kept inventories low and reduced a buffer that … Read more
Basemark debuts enhanced mobile device benchmark
Qualcomm led the industry in introducing variable rate shading (VRS) with the Snapdragon 888 last September. Apple filed a patent on VSR in 2019, Samsung has it in their GPU, and Arm’s Immortalis-G715 introduced it in June of this year. With all that development, someone had to test it. Who better than the folks at Basemark? So, Basemark launched its … Read more
Cameras aren’t just for taking snapshots
Cameras are everywhere and in everything. The market and applications have exploded in the last ten years. But a cohesive set of standard APIs has been slow to emerge making compatibility challenging. Hoping to wrestle the multi-tentacled beast under control, Khronos has teamed up with the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and formed a new Khronos Working Group to develop … Read more
3D data visualization gets communitive
Earth day 2021. (Source: Nasa Earth) How do you know if an airplane will fly, a nuclear boom will explode, or what Jupiter is made of? You take a bazillion tons of data (that’s how we measure data in today’s zettascale of data creation) and create a simulation that generates a visualization of it. Weather and climate change forecasting, … Read more
Khronos compresses texture maps for everyone
Over the years of computer graphics, stretching back to Ed Catmull’s pioneering 1974 paper that introduced the concept of subdivision, wrapping, and unwrapping, the CG industry has been trying to find ways to make texture mapping faster and more efficient because it is such a powerful tool. It led to Jim Blinn’s famous 1978 paper on bump-mapping and other developments. … Read more