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Today, The Khronos Group announced the latest roadmap milestone for the Vulkan API. The Vulkan roadmap targets the “immersive graphics” market, made up of mid- to high-end smartphones, tablets, laptops, consoles, and desktop devices. The Vulkan Roadmap 2024 milestone captures a set of capabilities that are expected to be supported in new products for that market, beginning in 2024. The roadmap specification provides a significant increase in functionality for the targeted devices and sets the evolutionary direction of the API, including both new hardware capabilities and improvements to the programming model for Vulkan developers.

The extensions and features required by Vulkan Roadmap 2024 include several newly released extensions, plus mandatory support for a number of previously optional features and increases in minimum hardware capabilities.

OpenXR has gained significant attention from AR, VR and MR -- collectively known as XR -- application developers and device manufacturers for its ability to simplify cross-platform development. As the OpenXR ecosystem expands to include even more devices, platforms and system architectures, such as split rendering using edge servers, there is a growing demand for a diversity of implementation choices, including open source.

The Monado open-source project from Collabora is being increasingly used in the implementation of diverse OpenXR-based systems. In this blog, we outline the significant updates and improvements that are being made to Monado thanks to the Khronos Group’s support for open-source development efforts that encourage growth of the wider OpenXR ecosystem.

Vulkanised 2024 is the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API, and will feature talks from Vulkan implementers, engine and framework builders, thought leaders, researchers, educators, and open-source tool providers from around the world. Speakers represent diverse organizations ranging from ARM, Autodesk, Meta, and NVIDIA, to UC Santa Cruz and the University of Vienna.

The three-day program will include:

• Technical sessions covering Vulkan validation, SDK installation, Vulkan development for Apple desktops and devices, and the new Vulkan Video Encode API.
• Case study and best practice presentations drawn from real-world implementations.
• Updates on the Vulkan SDK and development roadmap.
• Drinks reception, conference dinner, and daily networking lunches.

Khronos welcomes the work by Tyler Sorensen and Trail of Bits to increase security around the usage of Khronos APIs and have been working closely with them for several months to ensure that API implementers are aware and able to act on any issues. Khronos is also diligently exploring additional actions relating to API specifications, conformance testing, and platform vendor cooperation to continually strengthen safety and security when using Khronos compute and rendering APIs.

In February of 2023, LunarG conducted a Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK Survey. Many Vulkan developers shared their requests for improvements. LunarG took those suggestions to heart and made many enhancements to the Vulkan ecosystem this year. We’ve prepared a report for the Vulkan developer community that summarizes our work. Read on for more information.

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