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The Khronos group has released versions 4.0 and 3.3 of the OpenGL spec, the latest version of the cross-platform, royalty-free 2D and 3D graphics API used on all major desktop operating systems, ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. With the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco underway, Khronos Group, the association behind ...

The Khronos Group that maintains the OpenGL API launched two new flavors of the specification at the Games Developer Conference (GDC) this week. OpenGL 4.0 is designed to update the API to DirectX ...

With one of the world's biggest game developers announcing its plans to go cross-platform earlier this week, now might be an opportune moment to introduce a new version of the most popular ...

OpenGL is one of those things that has made the iPhone one of the strongest competitors for the mobile gaming market. The platform offers developers a robust way to program 3D applications, especially ...

LONDON — The Khronos Group, an industry consortium focused on developing multimedia standards and application programming interfaces (APIs), has announced the release of the OpenGL 4.0 specification; ...

Open standard 3D API specification available immediately; Provides performance, quality and flexibility enhancements including tessellation and double precision shaders; Tight integration with OpenCL ...

When a new OpenGL specification has been released, its merely the standardization of OpenGL extensions that have been around for a long time. Implicitly stating OpenGL is always behind Direct3D in ...

For OpenGL 2 capable hardware, these new extensions are provided: * ARB_texture_swizzle (also in core OpenGL 3.3) * ARB_sampler_objects (also in core OpenGL 3.3) * ARB_occlusion_query2 (also in core ...

The Khronos Group, yesterday, announced the official release of the OpenGL 4.0 specification. Alongside the 4.0 release is an updated version of the encapsulated, mini-OpenGL [OpenGL ES] designed for ...