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Ronnie with 'Everything Vive' had a chance to interview Neil Trevett at GDC 2019 and discuss OpenXR and Khronos.

Codeplay Software has announced the availability of this fully supported edition of their popular SYCL implementation providing advanced features and premium technical support to developers seeking to bring advanced vision and AI products to the market. The first releases will support Intel GPUs and Renesas R-Car products, with other platforms becoming available soon.

Neil Trevett, President of The Khronos Group talks about the OpenXR release specification for virtual and augmented reality at GDC 2019. Learn more about the latest in future computing at Meant to be Seen (MTBS3D) and The International Future Computing Association (TIFCA).

Akash Kuttappa has posted an in-depth review of glTF updates coming out of GDC 2019. The review covers Mozilla Hubs and Spoke, Adobe Dimension and glTF, Facebook and glTF, Google , Microsoft and glTF, and more. Each review includes a 'Showcase' and 'Looking forward' section. Read the blog.

Tobii announced at the 2019 Game Developers Conference, a new software development kit (SDK) for XR applications and new resources for PC developers. The new developer guides and tools ease eye tracking integration in a variety of important ways, from providing new libraries and APIs for intuitive object mapping and selection, to delivering example code and implementation tutorials. The Tobii XR SDK and associated libraries are designed to be used with and complement the capabilities of device-specific SDKs associated with VR headsets that support eye tracking and the OpenXR initiative.

Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA) is thte AMD offline compiler and integrated code analysis tool, supporting the high-level shading and kernel languages that are consumed by DirectX 11, Vulkan, OpenGL and OpenCL, including HLSL, GLSL, the OpenCL kernel language, and SPIR-V. Along with support for Vulkan in the RGA GUI, the biggest new feature in RGA 2.1 is a new analysis system that lets you obtain the GCN machine ISA and hardware resource information, using the compiler in the running driver that you have in your system. Learn more on the Radeon GPU Blog from AMD.

NVIDIA VKRay is a set of three extensions that bring ray tracing functionality to the Vulkan. VK_NV_ray_tracing is the stable registered extension for adding ray tracing effects to Vulkan raster applications. Callable shaders provide applications with the means to reuse shading code across many different objects. The new stable extension includes API updates for cleaner code and flexible memory management. Learn more in the NVIDIA Developers News center.

ncnn is a widely-used opensource neural network inference framework optimized for mobile platforms. It supports commonly used CNN models such as resnet, mobilenet, ssd, yolo etc. , converted from caffe, mxnet, onnx etc. The ncnn community used to focus on high performance computing optimization on mobile CPU using arm neon technology. The latest ncnn version added gpu-acceleration via Vulkan compute, which brings a cross-platform and vendor-independent neural network inference solution from desktop to mobile. The ncnn Vulkan acceleration runs natively on Windows, Linux, Android, and MacOS, iOS via MoltenVK project.

Arm has released "Vulkan Best Practices for Mobile Developers Tutorials" on GitHub. You can read a quick overview of what this new tutorial is all about in the Khronos Blog.

At its GDC 2019 keynote, Google announced Stadia, a cloud streaming service allowing graphically-intensive games to be available to anyone who can run Chrome. Doom Eternal will be one of the first games on the platform, streaming at 4K resolution, 60 fps. Google has partnered with AMD to design a custom GPU with "more than ten teraflops of power," which is paired with a custom CPU for each Stadia rendering instance. Those instances will run on Linux and use the Vulkan API. Google has partnered with Unreal and Unity to "bring full support to the most popular and familiar game engines to our development community."

Out of GTC and into GDC, NVIDIA will talk about Q2VKPT, the Vulkan-based renderer for Quake 2 that uses hardware accelerated path tracing and advanced spatiotemporal denoising. One of the speakers is former NVIDIA intern Christoph Schied, a Ph.D. student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, creator of Q2VKPT. For a sneak peak checkout this article with Video and Screenshots.

Khronos will be holding their Annual GDC Developer Day Sessions on March 19th in Moscone West Room 2020. The complete schedule is available online:

• glTF and WebGL - 10:00am – 11:00am
• OpenXR – State of the Union – 11:20am – 12:20pm
• Vulkan – State of the Union - 1:20pm – 2:20pm
• Making Use of New Vulkan Features – 2:40pm – 3:40pm
• Bringing Fortnite to Mobile with Vulkan and OpenGL ES – 4:00pm – 5:00pm
• Ubisoft's Experience Developing with Vulkan – 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Running all day March 18-19 will be the Khronos OpenXR Table at VRDC. Finally on March 20th starting at 6:30pm, there will be the annual WebGL/WebVR Meetup to be held in Galvanize. In past years there were over 200 people attending with only standing room and people being turned away. If you want to get in, show up early. This event will be live streamed on the Silicon Valley WebGL group on Facebook.

The Khronos® Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced acceleration standards, announces the ratification and public release of the OpenXR™ 0.90 provisional specification. OpenXR is a unifying, royalty-free, open standard that provides high-performance access to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)— collectively known as XR—platforms and devices. The new specification can be found on the Khronos website and is released in provisional form to enable developers and implementers to provide feedback at the OpenXR forum.

NeoAxis Group announces a new 3D development environment NeoAxis Engine version 2019.1. The environment can be used to develop all kinds of 3D projects such as computer games, visual trainers, VR systems, to visualize processes and develop windowed applications. The engine uses OpenGL API for rendering.

Airbus Defence and Space and Core Avionics & Industrial Inc. announced today, at Aerospace TechWeek in Munich, a technology partnership to enable the use of GPU compute in airborne systems and applications that require the highest RTCA DO-178C/EUROCAE ED-12C DAL A safety certifications. Based on the use of CoreAVI’s platforms for safety certifiable applications, including its VkCore™ SC Vulkan®-based compute driver architecture, the two companies will work together to fully define and be ready to deliver software and systems that perform safety critical GPU compute operations to enable the most advanced autonomous systems and other avionics applications that can take advantage of GPU compute functions. CoreAVI chairs Khronos’ Vulkan SC Working Group and is driving forward new standards to support true GPU compute capabilities using graphics processors.