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| Event | Date/Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Vulkan Advisory Panel Meeting | Sunday, Feb 26 11am - 5pm |
Galvanize, 44 Tehama Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 (MAP) |
| VRDC Table | Mon-Tues, Feb 27-28 10am - 6pm |
Moscone, North Hall, Table #TT06, between ballrooms 134 and 135 |
| DevDay | Tues, Feb 28 10am - 5:30-ish |
Moscone, West Hall, Room 3022 |
| GDC Expo | Wed-Fri, March 1-3 10am - 6pm (10am - 3pm on March 3) |
Moscone, South Hall, Booth #2419 |
| WebGL/WebVR/glTF Meetup | Thurs, March 2 6:30-9:30pm |
Galvanize, 44 Tehama Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 (MAP) Livestream: Facebook group |
Visit the Khronos booth for a free t-shirt or reference guide, and stick around to listen to a presentation or see a demo from a Khronos member (see the schedule below). Most presenters will be available for questions and discussions after their presentations.
| Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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| 10:00 |  OpenGL and Vulkan in VR |
OpenGL and Vulkan in VR |
 Tobii Eye Tracking in VR |
| 11:00 |  Vulkan in the Xenko Game Engine |
 WebGL for zSpace |
 Vulkan on macOS and iOS |
| 11:30 |  Vulkan debugging support in NVIDIA Nsight |
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| 12:00 | Demo: Vulkan extensions on NVIDIA GPU |
VkHLF: A high-level framework for Vulkan |
Tobii Eye Tracking in VR |
| 1:00 | Vulkan on MacOS and iOS |
Vulkan on macOS and iOS |
 Optical and camera effects in OpenGL ES |
| 2:00 |  Vulkan multipass: Mobile deferred shading done right |
Vulkan multipass: Mobile deferred shading done right |
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| 3:00 | WebGL for zSpace |
Debugging Vulkan on mobile with Renderdoc |
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| 4:00 |  OpenVX for real-time 360 video stitching |
Tobii Eye Tracking in VR |
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| 5:00 | Vulkan debugging support in NVIDIA Nsight |
Date: Feb 27 - 28 (With GDC)
Location:
Table #TT06 by Room 135, North Hall
Is your company involved with the growing VR market?
Check out our table at VRDC where we look forward to talking with you about the Khronos VR Initiative that was launched last year. If your company isn't participating with this initiative, perhaps it should be! Look for our table #TT06 in Moscone North, between ballrooms 134 and 135. Learn more about the Khronos Virtual Reality Standard Initiative.
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 10AM to 6PM
Location:
Room 3022, West Hall
Join us for sessions about WebGL, glTF, VR, and of course Vulkan; and get your free t-shirt, stickers, and Khronos API reference guide.
| Time | Session | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Reach the Largest Gaming Platform of All: The Web. WebGL, WebVR and glTF
Speakers: Neil Trevett (NVIDIA), Saurabh Bhatia (Microsoft), Zhenyao Mo, Kai Ninomiya, Brandon Jones, and Ken Russell (Google), Ricardo Cabello (Mr. doob) |
3D graphics on the Web is rapidly evolving, This session discusses the latest innovations coming in WebGL 2.0 as well as glTF, technologies from Khronos that brings the power of OpenGL to 3D web graphics. We also discuss how WebVR is leveraging these standards to bring Virtual Reality to a browser near you! |
| 11:20 AM | Refocusing on VR Innovation: Can Standards Simplify Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Development?
Speakers: Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics), Alon Or-bach (Samsung) |
 The rapid growth of the virtual reality market has led to platform fragmentation, forcing applications and engines to be ported and customized to run on multiple VR systems. This slows the widespread availability of compelling VR experiences, creates added expense for developers, and consumes resources that could be better spent on innovating.This panel discussion will consider the challenges of bridging between VR platforms, and to what extent standards could ease the pain to drive more innovation in the hardware and software spaces. Come hear about how Khronos APIs such as Vulkan and OpenGL ES are already enabling low-latency GPU rendering, as well as the potential of the recently announced Khronos VR Initiative to grow the virtual reality ecosystem by standardizing access to common functionality in VR systems. This will be an interactive session, so please come armed with questions – and your tales of platform porting pain! |
| 1:20 PM | Vulkan Game Development on Mobile
Speakers: Alen Ladavac (Croteam), Soowan Park (Samsung), Hans-Kristian Arntzen (ARM) |
Vulkan is an explicit 3D graphics and compute API with cross-platform portability. Since its release in February 2016, it has gained official support in Android and has been exposed on a number of noteworthy mobile devices. Hear first-hand from developers that worked on game titles for mobile using Vulkan and how you can design your code to get impressive performance improvements. |
| 2:40 PM | Vulkan on Desktop Deep Dive
Speakers: Jörg Wollenschläger (Silicon Studio), Dan Baker (Oxide, tentative), Jesse Barker (Unity), Jeff Bolz (NVIDIA) |
Vulkan promises portability and high-performance on the desktop. Twelve months after Vulkan's February 2016 launch, is the promise being fulfilled? Come hear the key learnings from developers that have been at the cutting edge of exploring Vulkan's capabilities. |
| 4:00 PM | When Vulkan was One: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Speakers: Tom Olson (ARM), Alon Or-bach (Samsung), Alen Ladavac (Croteam), Hai Nguyen (Google), Piers Daniell (Nvidia), Karl Schulz (LunarG), Hans-Kristian Arntzen (ARM), Mike Schmit (AMD) |
We will start with an overview of the highs and lows for Vulkan in its first year as a public API, and talk about where should Vulkan go next. Then our panel will reveal the uncensored, inside track from developers that have been instrumental in defining and driving the Vulkan API. Stick around after the session for a beer and chat. |
Date: March 2, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Galvanize, 44 Tehama Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105
Registration: WebGL/WebVR Meetup - No GDC or VRDC pass needed to attend.
Livestream: Facebook group
Attend this Meetup for sessions about WebGL. WenVR, and glTF from developers, Khronos Working Group members, and others. This Meetup will be held at Galvanize about 5 minutes away from Moscone and does not require a GDC badge to attend. Beer will be served.
The Khronos Group is sponsoring this WebGL/WebVR Meetup:
Flaunt your API-allegiance at GDC with a free Khronos t-shirt available at the booth and at the sessions above. Can't make it to GDC? Buy a t-shirt online!
Have you seen the latest design of the Vulkan T-shirt? Get yours at our booth or at our Vulkan sessions. We'll also have WebGL and glTF shirts, and reference guides for Vulkan and WebGL.
Most of the biggest players in 3D Graphics and Gaming are Khronos members, and many of them are having sessions at GDC that are about or pertain to Khronos technologies. Here are some sessions you may be interested in.
For the latest up-to-date list of Vulkan, OpenCL and OpenGL session, please refer to the official GDC sessions page.
| Time | Session | Details |
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| Monday 10:00am Room 2006 |
ADVANCED GRAPHICS TECH: D3D12 & Vulkan Done Right, and Wave Programming in D3D12 & Vulkan |
AMD / NVIDIA – Vulkan |
| Tuesday 10:00am - 5:00pm Room 2020 |
Facebook Developer Day | Facebook – WebGL |
| Tuesday 2:40pm - 5:40pm Room 2011 |
The Future of VR and Mobile Graphics | Imagination – Vulkan, VR standard |
| Wednesday 9:30am Room 2020 |
D3D12 & Vulkan: Lessons Learned | AMD – Vulkan |
| Wednesday 12:30pm Room 3007 |
Mobile: The Future of VR | ARM / Samsung – Vulkan |
| Wednesday 3:30 pm Rom 3022 |
High Quality Mobile VR with Unreal Engine and Oculus | ARM / Oculus / Epic Games – Virtual Reality |
| Thursday 10:00am Room 3022 |
Get the Most from Vulkan in Unity with Practical Examples from Infinite Dreams | ARM / Unity Technologies / Infinite Dreams – Vulkan |
| Friday 10:00am Room 2000 |
NVIDIA Vulkan Update | NVIDIA – Vulkan, OpenGL |
You can find a complete list of GDC Exhibitors here.
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