There's One Week To Go Until SIGGRAPH 2015, Likely Vulkan News

[phoronix]

Phoronix: There's One Week To Go Until SIGGRAPH 2015, Likely Vulkan News

Next week is the annual SIGGRAPH event happening in Los Angeles...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SIGGRAPH-2015-One-Week

[Imroy]

What if they release OpenGL 4.6 instead or as well as Vulkan?

[humbug]

A celebrity panel conducting a course on how to develop games for the new Gen of APIs- Vulkan and DX12.

http://s2015.siggraph.org/attendees/courses/events/overview-next-generation-graphics-apis

[computerquip]

What if they release OpenGL 4.6 instead or as well as Vulkan?

Releasing 4.6 and extension for accepting SPIRV byte code would be acceptable to many at the moment.

[Deavir]

What if they release OpenGL 4.6 instead or as well as Vulkan?

Why shouldn't they? 4.5 was released a year ago. OpenGL isn't legacy, maybe they will release an ES 3.2 too.

[blackout23]

There was also a Vulkan/DX12 Talk by AMD at GDC in Germany yesterday, but no slides. Only found two guys who did a tweet about it.

[efikkan]

There will be an update on the state of Vulkan and OpenGL.

It would probably still be more than a year until we get stable Vulkan support, and I hope there will be at least another minor OpenGL update. I'm hoping for more standardized bindless extensions, command lists and conservative raster, all of which is already supported by Nvidia.

[smitty3268]

What if they release OpenGL 4.6 instead or as well as Vulkan?

I fully expect them to. They've explicitly said that OpenGL is not dead, and will continue to exist. Adding some Vulkan interop capabilities (such as allowing SPIR-V shaders) would be a great addition.

[blackout23]

https://www.khronos.org/news/events/2015-siggraph

• Vulkan Progress Report:
  • Introduction, goals, status: Tom Olson, Vulkan Working Group Chair, ARM
  • Vulkan ecosystem support: Jens Owen, LunarG
  • Window system integration: Alon Or-bach, Vulkan WSI TSG Chair, Samsung
  • What?s changed since GDC: Jesse Barker, ARM
  • Some cool things about Vulkan: Tobias Hector, Imagination Technologies
  • Platform and hardware support: Members and community

"Progress Report", "Goals", "Status" doesn't make it sound like a Vulkan 1.0 release with drivers is likely next week.
It will be interesting to hear about the Window system integration. I hope they have a Wayland extension.
It's interesting that Samsung holds the WSI Talk. Bryce Harrington of Samsung is also currently in charge of Wayland/Weston project leadership.

[AnonymousCoward]

Well as they released SPIR provisional specification so they could also release some preview specification?