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Mesa’s Venus Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 Support

Mesa's Venus, a Vulkan driver within the Mesa 3D graphics library, now exposes accelerated Vulkan API support within virtualized environments (VMs). On the Virglrenderer side for the host renderer bits of Vulkan 1.4, this merge took Vulkan 1.4 over the finish line with virglrenderer.

The Vulkan SC Emulation Driver Stack

This Rastergrid blog explores the creation of the Vulkan SC Emulation driver stack. This software stack enables all developers to prototype and develop Vulkan SC applications on consumer PC hardware running Windows or Linux without needing specialized hardware and software components that are typically required to target safety-critical systems.

Statement from OpenXR Working Group in Response to Community Discourse on the OVRPlugin from Meta

The Khronos OpenXR Working Group recognizes the challenges developers have faced with legacy APIs and platform-specific behaviors that limit XR application portability. The Working Group is dedicated to evolving OpenXR by incorporating vendor extensions into the core specification and continues to enhance platform interoperability. Today, three major engines - Unity, Unreal, and Godot - support building OpenXR applications that are compatible with multiple vendors' OpenXR conformant devices, provided vendor-specific features are avoided. 

Application developers retain the choice to target specific runtimes and devices if desired, though this approach may introduce some vendor dependencies. For guidance on building OpenXR PCVR applications on Windows without vendor dependencies:

Video: The Role of Open Standard Programming Models for HPC

In this video from SC24, SYCL Chair Dr. Tom Deakin shares strategies for writing performance portable applications and presents the roles that ISO languages C++ and Fortran, as well as parallel programming models and abstractions such as OpenMP, SYCL, and Kokkos, play in the ever-changing heterogeneous landscape. 

SuperDNA Podcast: The Future of 3D on the Web - 3D Commerce with Daniel Frith

SuperDNA's Mike Festa sits down with the Chair of the 3D Commerce Working Group, Dan Frith, to discuss Khronos and the exciting world of 3D Commerce. 

Bentley and Khronos: Shaping the Future of Open Standards in Infrastructure

In this Bently blog, we learn how Bentley, through acquisition of Cesium, has come to embrace the Khronos Group ecosystem. As digital twin and infrastructure modeling technologies mature, Bentley’s involvement is helping to shape an open, connected, and interoperable future for infrastructure.

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