Khronos Expands Focus On Safety Critical APIs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Khronos Expands Focus On Safety Critical APIs

Today is the Khronos day at SIGGRAPH 2016 with several announcements being expected...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Critical-Panel

[GraysonPeddie]

Hmm... I've never heard of "safety critical." At least I've googled for the definition.

[tsuru]

It's a "profile" of the OpenGL ES spec. Their working group page at https://www.khronos.org/openglsc/ has more details and images

[starshipeleven]

Hmm... I've never heard of "safety critical." At least I've googled for the definition.

Ever heard the saying "if cars were like computers they would run at 5000 mph, do a million miles per gallon, but every so often explode and kill everyone inside" ?

[rabcor]

Actually I would've liked it if they'd expand and make a vulkan/opengl associated open sound api (like directx has direct sound; I'm gettin kinda tired of fmod to be honest)

[Xelix]

Actually I would've liked it if they'd expand and make a vulkan/opengl associated open sound api (like directx has direct sound; I'm gettin kinda tired of fmod to be honest)

How about OpenAL? It's not made by Khronos, but it was designed from the ground up to resemble OpenGL

[starshipeleven]

Actually I would've liked it if they'd expand and make a vulkan/opengl associated open sound api (like directx has direct sound; I'm gettin kinda tired of fmod to be honest)

Possibly stupid question, but what does that have to do with GPUs?

[starshipeleven]

How about OpenAL? It's not made by Khronos, but it was designed from the ground up to resemble OpenGL

Contrary to what the name suggests, it's proprietary now.

[plonoma]

Possibly stupid question, but what does that have to do with GPUs?

HDMI ports are on GPU's.
Sound decoding on GPU's with an audio block.
Sound synthesis in simulations/games by GPU's.

[dungeon]

Possibly stupid question, but what does that have to do with GPUs?

One word -TrueAudio