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Vulkan 1.3.294 Introduces New Pipeline Binary Extension
Vulkan 1.3.294 Introduces New Pipeline Binary Extension

Vulkan 1.3.294 is out today with a handful of fixes and clarifications to this high performance graphics and compute API. In addition to the maintenance work, Vulkan 1.3.294 introduces a new pipeline binary extension: VK_KHR_pipeline_binary.

23 August 2024 - VK_KHR_pipeline_binary - Add A Comment
FFmpeg Merges Vulkan Video Encode Support
FFmpeg Merges Vulkan Video Encode Support

Since the release of FFmpeg 6.1 last year there has been accelerated Vulkan Video decoding support while being merged to FFmpeg Git this weekend is the Vulkan Video encode support.

11 August 2024 - Vulkan Video Encoding - 20 Comments
SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer
SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer

The Simple DirectMedia Library that is commonly used as an abstraction layer by cross-platform games and other software is now introducing a Vulkan renderer with SDL3.

23 February 2024 - SDL3 Vulkan Renderer - 15 Comments
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted

Vulkanised 2024 took place this week in Sunnyvale, California as the 6th go at this Vulkan Developer Conference. The slides from this conference are now available for those wishing to learn more about this open industry standard cxompute/graphics API.

9 February 2024 - Vulkanised 2024 - 3 Comments
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension

Introduced in April 2021 was the initial Vulkan Video support for a new video encode/decode API built around Vulkan. That initial Vulkan Video support was catered to H.264 and H.265 while finally with today's Vulkan 1.3.277 release there is a new extension introduced for AV1 video decoding.

1 February 2024 - VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 - 28 Comments
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler

Coming out of Saarland University is Vcc, the Vulkan Clang Compiler. Vcc provides an "honest attempt to bring the entire C/C++ language family to Vulkan" as an interesting new compiler.

10 January 2024 - Vulkan Clang Compiler - 14 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions

The Vulkan 1.3.262 revision to this industry standard for high performance graphics and compute is now published. There is the usual assortment of minor changes/fixes plus four new extensions, which all happen to be new vendor extensions from Qualcomm.

25 August 2023 - Vulkan 1.3.262 - 4 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension
Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension

Vulkan 1.3.249 is out today as the latest spec update for this industry-standard high performance graphics and compute API. Notable with Vulkan 1.3.249 is the introduction of VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch.

27 April 2023 - VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch - 1 Comment
Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available
Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available

Taking place last month in the most wonderful city of Munich, The Khronos Group hosted Vulkanised 2023 as their Vulkan Developers' Conference and Meetup. The slides and videos from the event are now available, including talks on Valve's RADV effort and more.

14 March 2023 - Vulkanised 2023 - 6 Comments

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