{"id":439,"date":"2006-07-19T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:02","slug":"opengl_arb_and_khronos_to_merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/07\/19\/opengl_arb_and_khronos_to_merge\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenGL ARB and Khronos to merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of interesting news stories on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengl.org\/\">OpenGL homepage<\/a>. I think with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/s2006\/\">SIGGRAPH 2006<\/a> approaching, everything is coming to a head. The most interesting news is that Khronos Group and the OpenGL ARB are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/2006\/07\/18\/analysis_khronos_and_open_gl_merge\/\">merging<\/a>. This seems like a fairly natural progression and it will bring related technologies (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khronos.org\/openvg\/\">OpenVG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khronos.org\/egl\/\">EGL<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/collada.org\/\">COLLADA<\/a>) under the same banner as OpenGL.<\/p>\n<p>The other interesting bit of news is the first issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengl.org\/pipeline\">Pipeline<\/a>, the OpenGL ARB newsletter. The ARB has been fairly quiet for the last&#8230; year or so&#8230; (their last public <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengl.org\/about\/arb\/meeting_notes\/\">meeting notes<\/a> are from December 2004). It&#8217;s good that they are making an effort to inform the wider development community about their&#8230; developments; The newsletter point to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamedev.net\/columns\/events\/gdc2006\/article.asp?id=233\">GameDev article<\/a> with a general overview of OpenGL 2.1. This first issue also mentions that it is most likely the last issue (due to the aforementioned merger).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of interesting news stories on the OpenGL homepage. I think with SIGGRAPH 2006 approaching, everything is coming to a head. The most interesting news is that Khronos Group and the OpenGL ARB are merging. This seems like a fairly natural progression and it will bring related technologies (such as OpenVG, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/07\/19\/opengl_arb_and_khronos_to_merge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OpenGL ARB and Khronos to merge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-75","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}