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LunarG has announced the release of new SDKs that support Vulkan header 1.2.189 and many new extensions. For additional details, read the release notes for Linux, Windows, or macOS.

The OpenCL working group today released the OpenCL 3.0.10 specification including the latest round of maintenance updates, clarifications and bug fixes - in many cases responding to issues and questions from the OpenCL developer community.

This latest specification includes updates for readability and accessibility, such as improved syntax highlighting, as well as new and updated extensions which are outlined in the blog.

3co seeks to automatically 3D model the world's retail products with superhuman vision, speed, and scalability. The 3co team has deep experience in AI from NASA, Google, and Microsoft. Through simulation and lab R&D, they are developing state-of-the-art AI for physically-based inverse rendering, for powering the future of 3D commerce.

The new product combines the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer platform and the ThinkReality A3 smart glasses. Snapdragon Spaces is based on the Khronos OpenXR specification to ensure portability and is the first headworn AR platform optimized for AR Glasses tethered to smartphones with an OpenXR conformant runtime.

ByondXR was founded in 2016 by industry veterans Noam Levavi and Eran Galil with the goal of helping brands, wholesalers and retailers to showcase their products in the most effective and engaging way in this new and ever-changing business environment.

Dassault Systemes explores the need for online shopping experiences to grow rapidly by using glTF to minimize the size of 3D assets and speed up runtime processing.

Khronos has made substantial investments in strengthening the SPIR-V backend for LLVM and the OpenCL Working Group is pleased to release early results from testing that provide insights into compilation coverage using the OpenCL conformance test suite and LLVM’s tests. Work in the past months has been dedicated to the overall design of LLVM’s new backend and its integration with the Clang frontend, with particular focus on parsing OpenCL kernel language sources. Khronos will soon finalize this design and commence integration into the upstream LLVM repository. To speed progress, a special panel is going to take place at the LLVM Developers Meeting to discuss the overall design and formulate a concrete list of actions.

The Khronos Group will be hosting a SYCL Webinar on December 7, 2021. The webinar will be technical in nature and is aimed at both existing SYCL users and HPC developers looking to hear about the very latest updates on the SYCL standard and it’s supporting ecosystem. The agenda is packed full with leading experts in the field. It is free to attend, and there will be a Q&A session at the end to answer any questions you may have.

The Vulkan Group announces a new extension VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering. This new extension allows developers to tell the API to start rendering with no render pass or framebuffer objects! Check out the full blog story for a detailed explanation.

Cesium announced that the 3D Tiles Next open specification is now available. The core of 3D Tiles Next is streaming interactive 3D at scale with a set of extensions to allow the developer community to better:

• Stream semantic metadata efficiently
• Run massive simulations and analytics via spatial indexes
• Integrate with glTF and extension ecosystem
  

Founded in 2000, 3dMD develops a proven and verified technology to capture dynamic-4D anatomical shape information of a subject’s natural physical movements (1-120 3D frames per second) for applications demanding textured, 3D dense-surface image precision such as Healthcare, Computer Vision/Perception, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Wearable-tech, Human Factors, Apparel, Anthropometrics, AR/VR/XR, Biometric Enrollment, etc. With an efficient subject workflow suitable for recruiting thousands of subjects, 3dMD systems capture progressive sequences of ‘near ground-truth’ 3D images of subjects, whether it is full body, face, head, hands, foot, etc. Synchronized with a wide range of third-party devices, 3dMD generates high-volume 3D/4D training sets with anatomical fidelity to support the latest computer vision, AI, and eXtended Reality innovations. In addition, 3dMD develops sophisticated downstream software for extracting dynamic markerless derivatives of intricate human movement.

Designed with a developer-first approach, the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform combines proven technology and an open ecosystem for headworn Augmented Reality (AR) devices to enable the creation of immersive experiences that seamlessly blur the lines between our physical and digital realities to usher in a new frontier of spatial computing. Snapdragon Spaces is based on the Khronos OpenXR specification to enable application portability and is the first headworn AR platform optimized for AR Glasses tethered to smartphones with an OpenXR conformant runtime.

Established in 2014, Rokid is a product-oriented platform company dedicated to human computer interaction. We currently devote our selves to the R&D of hardware and software products of AR goggles as well as theeco logical architecture based on Yoda OS-XR. Through multi-disciplinary study such as speech recognition, natural language processing, computer vision, visual display, chip platform and hardware design, we integrate the advanced AI and AR technologies with industrial application to provide full-stack solutions for various customers in vertical business, thus greatly improving the users’ experience, promoting enterprises’ efficiency and providing guarantee for public security. Our AI and AR products have been widely used in more than 70 countries and regions.

Glen Roth recounts the story of the founding of what is now Khronos’ 3D Commerce Working Group from identifying the need, gathering industry cooperation, meeting and discussing the scope of work the group wanted to tackle and why they chose the Khronos Group to host the effort.

Penumbra, Inc., headquartered in Alameda, California, is a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies. Penumbra designs, develops, manufactures and markets novel products and has a broad portfolio that addresses challenging medical conditions in markets with significant unmet need. Penumbra supports healthcare providers, hospitals and clinics in more than 100 countries.