SIGGRAPH is one of the world’s most significant and long-standing conferences focused on computer graphics and interactive techniques. For the Khronos Group, SIGGRAPH represents an essential opportunity to connect with the developers, engineers, artists, and technical professionals that make up the primary users of Khronos standards like ANARI, glTF, OpenXR, WebGL, and Vulkan. 

Through Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, presentations, networking events, and face-to-face member meetings at SIGGRAPH, Khronos shares new and forthcoming technical breakthroughs, gathers feedback, learns about user needs and promotes best practices. This year, Khronos hosted nine public-facing events over four days: Presentation materials and video recordings for these events are now available on the Khronos SIGGRAPH 2024 Event Page.

If you weren’t able to join us in person, you can now view all the presentations to get a quick overview from the Fast Forward sessions or take a deeper dive into your particular area of interest. 

Resources include:

• Khronos Fast Forward – a high-level overview with the very latest updates from ANARI, glTF, OpenXR, WebGL, and Vulkan - presentation slides.
• 3D Commerce – panel discussion on the topic of Rendering Believable 3D Assets fro 3D Commerce presentation slides, video (36 min)

• glTF - presentations, panels, demos, and more exploring the continued evolution of the glTF 3D transmission format. 
  • Intro to glTF – presentation slides, video (5 min)
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  • AEC & Geospatial (including Gaussian Splatting ) - presentation slides, video (9 min)
  • Image Compression - presentation slides, video (7 min)
  • Complex Scenes - presentation slides, video (4 min)
  • Interactivity – presentation slides, video (5 min)
  • Audio - presentation slides, video (5 min)
  • Physics – presentation slides, video (5 min)

• WebGL and WebGPU – talks exploring the newest WebGL features, including HDR support in Basis Universal for rich, memory-efficient visuals and Kotlin bindings for efficient WebGPU development.
  • WebGPU and WebGL Updates -  presentation slides, video (22 min)
  • Advancements in HDR Images & Textures – presentation slides

• ANARI – an exploration of how ANARI, the industry’s first cross-platform API to describe scenes independently of rendering technique, gives practitioners in domains such as scientific visualization the ability to rapidly access the latest rendering engines without needing to be low-level graphics experts. presentation slides, video (60 mins)

• OpenXR – an overview of the OpenXR standard for cross-platform R development, including exploration of the newly release OpenXR 1.1 update, conformance test suite, and SDK - presentation slides, video (50 min)

• Vulkan – updates on new and in-development capabilities, tooling, and techniques for Khronos’s high-performance graphics API. 
  • Vulkan: Forging Ahead (overview & roadmap) –  presentation slides, video (31 min)
  • SDK Update – presentation slides, video (26 min)
  • Crash Layer Diagnostic Layer – presentation slides, video (23 min)
  • EVOLVE: Next Generation Benchmarking – video (16 min)
  • Slang in Vulkan – presentation slides, video (28 min)
  • Adding Vulkan to Pixar’s Hydra Storm Renderer – presentation slides, video (32 min)

Thanks again to the hundreds of SIGGRAPH 2024 attendees who connected with us in Denver. Visit the Khronos Events page to find virtual and in-person opportunities to join the conversation on open standards for graphics, interactivity, and beyond.