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Game development, Graphics, and Augmented/Virtual Reality — Khronos standards will be all over GDC 2019. Attend our full day of sessions at our Develop Day. Check out our WebGL/WebVR Meetup. Visit our members’ booths at the GDC expo. Attend one of the many individual courses and sessions held throughout the conference by Khronos members, implementers, and users.
| Event | Date/Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| VRDC Table | Mon-Tues, Mar 18-19 10am - 6:30pm |
Moscone, South Hall, Outside room 202 GDC Expo pass required |
| Khronos Developer Day Sessions | Tuesday, Mar 19 10am - 6:30pm |
Moscone West, Room 2020 GDC "EXPO PLUS" pass required |
| WebGL/WebVR Meetup | Wed, Mar 20 6:30pm-9:00pm |
Galvanize, 44 Tehama Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105 (MAP) Live stream: Silicon Valley WebGL group on Facebook No GDC Expo pass required |
Location: Moscone West, Room 2020
WebGL has become a ubiquitous mechanism for displaying interactive, high-performance graphical content on the World Wide Web. glTF 2.0, which includes Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials, has become the runtime format of choice for transmitting high-performance 3D models.
This session will present the current state of both the WebGL API and glTF file format. The latest features of both will be demonstrated, as well as how each is being used in the wild. The glTF roadmap will be covered including next-generation materials and compressed texture transmission (CTTF).
OpenXR is the cross-platform standard for the VR and AR ecosystem, which helps applications run on a multitude of platforms, and allows hardware manufacturers to gain access to a broader range of pre-existing content. We gave the first technical deep dive into the specification here last year, and we'd like to update how things have progressed since then with additional technical details, and an updated roadmap.
Visit with Khronos members who will be discussing how their solutions make use of Khronos APIs.
Over the past three years Vulkan has become the world's leading cross-platform, low-overhead graphics and compute API. In this session, we'll check in on the state of the Vulkan universe and review the latest developments in the standard and the ecosystem. We'll look at advances in tools and platform support, including Vulkan on iOS, and new features such as bindless resources, pointers, and eight- and sixteen-bit arithmetic. We'll take a deep dive into LunarG's GPU Assisted Validation, which is now available to application developers, demonstrating its value and how to use it. Finally, we'll talk about where Vulkan is going and how the Vulkan Working Group is responding to the needs of a growing, diverse, and often highly opinionated user community.
Join us in this session to learn about recently released Vulkan features that have been driven by developer feedback. This session is comprised of 3 smaller topics each delivered by a different speaker and focused on specific new features that are targeted at real world use cases. The first topic will be presented by AMD featuring memory management improvements including new extensions, inline constants, 8-bit storage and finally an update on the Vulkan Memory Allocator. Our second topic will be presented by Gaijin Entertainment, the creators of hit title WarThunder, and cover their experience iterating through versions of their HLSL shader compiler. This talk will provide insight into how Gaijin Entertainment handled descriptors as well as pipeline layouts and why they took certain development decisions. Finally, Samsung Electronics will provide insight into the new depth stencil resolve extension, its benefits and some real world use cases.
This session will provide a behind-the-scenes look at how Epic Games brought the full PC and console game experience of the global phenomenon that is Fortnite Battle Royale to Android devices using Vulkan and OpenGL ES. The session will cover the challenges faced, optimization strategies, performance and memory trade offs, content changes and implementation details Epic used to get the most out of the mobile graphics APIs as implemented in modern Android mobile devices. In particular it will discuss the results of the close collaboration made with Samsung in developing and optimizing Fortnite's Vulkan render interface implementation for multiple mobile SoCs.
Come join us to hear Jean-Noe talk about his experience developing with Vulkan! From shader compilers to pipeline caches, Jean-Noe will share thoughts and perspectives on working with ecosystem tools and the Vulkan API. Contrasting Vulkan with DX12 will highlight practical concerns when porting projects to Vulkan.
Location: Moscone, South Hall, Outside room 202
Time: 10:00am to 6:30pm
Learn more about OpenXR: Khronos’ standard for AR/VR. Talk with OpenXR working group members, and learn how your company can implement or join in the development of this important industry standard.
Location: Galvanize, 44 Tehama Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Live Stream: Silicon Valley WebGL Group on Facebook
The Khronos Group is sponsoring this WebGL/WebVR Meetup. Last year we had over 200 RSVPs and an amazing lineup of speakers. Join the WebGL working group and other speakers for this gathering of the Silicon Valley WebGL/WebVR meetup. Be sure to arrive a few minutes early to increase the odds of finding a seat.
Most of the biggest players in 3D Graphics and Gaming are Khronos members, and many of them are having sessions at GDC that are about or pertain to Khronos technologies. Here are some sessions you may be interested in.
For the latest up-to-date list of Vulkan, OpenCL and OpenGL session, please refer to the official GDC sessions page.
| Time | Session | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 1:20pm-2:20pm Room 303, South Hall |
"Surfing the Wave(front)s with Radeon GPU Profiler" & "Debugging and Profiling DXR & Vulkan Ray Tracing" |
AMD, NVIDIA - Vulkan |
| Monday 4:00pm-5:00pm Room 303, South Hall |
Breaking Down Barriers: An Introduction to GPU Synchronization | Ready at Dawn - Vulkan |
| Wednesday 9:00am-10:00am Room 3001, West Hall |
Enabling Real-Time Light Baking Workflows in Saber Engine with AMD RadeonRays Library | AMD - OpenCL, Vulkan |
| Wednesday 10:30am-11:15am Room 205, South Hall |
Ray Tracing in Vulkan | NVIDIA - Vulkan |
| Wednesday 12:30pm-1:30pm Room 2000, West Hall |
Galaxy GameDev: Bringing Maximum Boost to Mobile Games | Samsung - Vulkan |
| Wednesday 2:00pm-3:00pm Room 2024, West Hall |
All-in-One Guide to Vulkan on Mobile | Arm / Samsung - Vulkan |
| Wednesday 5:00pm-6:00pm Room 3001, West Hall |
AMD GPU Performance Revealed | AMD - OpenCL, Vulkan |
| Thursday 11:30am-12:30pm Room 3009, West Hall |
It Doesn't Have to Be Hard: How to Fix Your Performance Woes | Intel - Vulkan |
| Thursday 2:00pm-2:45pm Room 205, South Hall |
Real-Time Path Tracing and Denoising in 'Quake 2' | NVIDIA - Vulkan |
| Thursday 5:30pm-6:30pm Room 205, South Hall |
Getting The Most From Your Vulkan Applications with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics | NVIDIA - Vulkan |
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