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Khronos, OGC, and Geospatial Leaders Add 3D Gaussian Splats to the glTF Asset Standard

3D Gaussian Splats leading organizations across the geospatial, graphics, and standards domains have come together to integrate 3D Geospatial Gaussian Splats into Khronos’ widely adopted glTF 3D asset format standard. 

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Khronos Announces Inaugural Shading Language Symposium

February 12-13, 2026 - San Diego, USA

We are happy to announce the inaugural Shading Languages Symposium that will bring together developers, implementers, researchers, and technical artists to explore the current state and future development of shading languages. The open call for submissions closes on October 12th.
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Introducing Asset Creation Guidelines 2.0 for Commerce-Ready glTF Assets

We're excited to announce the launch of version 2.0 of the Asset Creation Guidelines—a comprehensive and continuously updated resource designed to help 3D artists create photorealistic, commerce-ready assets for web, XR, games, and other real-time 3D applications.

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Major Updates Coming for ANARI

At SIGGRAPH, ANARI previewed new capabilities that will be introduced with the next release. Building on the solid foundation of ANARI 1.0, version 1.1 introduces substantial enhancements that expand the API's flexibility and power. 

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Vulkan: Continuing to Forge Ahead

This Vulkan blog gives updates on Vulkan 1.4 adoption, recent extensions, a proposed new deprecation mechanism, enhancements to our samples and documentation, plus updates on the Vulkanised 2026 conference, and much more.

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Neural Graphics: Speeding It Up with Wave Intrinsics

Building on previous blogs, this blog explores more advanced performance optimizations, using a familiar 2D differentiable Gaussian splatting example as a testbed.

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SIGGRAPH 2025

This year's SIGGRAPH 2025 was a smashing success! Khronos had a strong showing with workshops, labs, talks and BOFs. Many of the presentations are uploaded to the event page and videos are coming soon. We hope to see you there next year!
Presentations

Building the Foundation for Accelerated AI

The roundtable on the critical role of foundational, cross-vendor acceleration standards in the evolving AI landscape was a great success. The session provided preliminary insights from the Khronos AI Ecosystem Research Project and previewed the Khronos AI Research Database.
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Future Media Townhall

Sept 13, 2025 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

OpenXR Outreach Officer, Frédéric Plourde, will present on, "The Future of Media Experiences: XR for Sports & Entertainment."
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Vulkanised 2026

Feb 9-11, 2026 - San Diego, USA

Vulkanised 2026 will provide developers with access to Vulkan expert to gain real-world insights into the latest Vulkan developments, extensions, applications, techniques, technologies, and tools. 
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