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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · 3d

This Sunday is the deadline for submissions to Vulkanised 2026. Submit your title and short abstract today!

Vulkanised 2026 submissions: vulkan.org/events/vulka...
#vulkan #vulkanised #GPU #API

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · 17d

Next week at XDC, there will be a half dozen sessions on the Vulkan API including tips and tricks for Vulkan Conformance Test Suite, KosmicKrisp - a Vulkan to Metal layered driver, and more. Check out all the Vulkan sessions: www.khronos.org/events/xdc-2...

#vulkan #api #KosmicKrisp #XDC #XDC2025

XDC 2025

Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing

www.khronos.org

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Arm Software Developers @developer.arm.com · 26d

Curious how NSS can deliver crisp frames at a fraction of the GPU load in Unreal Engine 5.5? 💻

In this Code-Along + Expert Q&A, we’ll set up @vulkan.org ML emulation, enable the NSS plugin, and visualize ML-powered upscaling in real time on Arm emulation layers.

www.arm.com/resources/we...

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · 25d

Less than a month before the deadline for Vulkanised submissions passes on Sunday, October 12th. Vulkanised provides a great opportunity to share your work, your ideas, and unique perspectives with your peers in the Vulkan ecosystem.

www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...
#vulkan #api

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Aug 15

When I started work on my @vulkan.org #Vulkan C++ samples almost 10 years ago I made some non-optimal decisions esp. around sync and command buffer recording. Finally fixed those and did a write-up with a small retrospective at www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/08...

Fundamental Vulkan Samples rework

Fundamental Vulkan Samples rework (Sync, command buffers and more) Some history It’s been almost ten years since I started working on my open source C++ Vulkan samples. Never would I have imagined wha...

www.saschawillems.de

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Christoph Kubisch @pixeljetstream.bsky.social · Aug 12

Jean-Eudes Marvie updated the vk_gaussian_splatting sample with ray tracing techniques
github.com/nvpro-sample... @vulkan.org

GitHub - nvpro-samples/vk_gaussian_splatting: Sample implementing several rendering methods for 3D gaussians using Vulkan API

Sample implementing several rendering methods for 3D gaussians using Vulkan API - nvpro-samples/vk_gaussian_splatting

github.com

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The Khronos Group @khronos.org · Aug 6

Attend the Khronos Networking Reception—Wed, Aug 13, 6‑9 PM! Sponsored by LunarG, Cesium and NVIDIA.

Connect with Khronos members, enjoy demos, and network informally over refreshments.

RSVP for tickets: www.khronos.org/events/siggr...
#networking #SIGGRAPH2025

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Aug 5

As we approach SIGGRAPH 2025, a new blog post has been added that previews the key Vulkan developments, initiatives, and events that will take center stage at the Vulkan BOF. Check it out for the latest Vulkan news.

www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-...
#vulkan #api #graphics

Vulkan: Continuing to Forge Ahead

As excitement builds for SIGGRAPH 2025, the Khronos Group is preparing to host its annual Vulkan Birds of a Feather session at SIGGRAPH 2025 on Wednesday, August 13, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. The BOF is a...

www.khronos.org

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Aug 4

We are excited for next week's SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, Canada! Come see our Birds of a Feather (BOF) session, panels, Forging Forward with Vulkan. Don’t miss your chance to connect with us and the wider developer community.

www.khronos.org/events/siggr...
#SIGGRAPH2025 #vulkan #api

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victor @ceyusa.com · Jul 25

let me remind you that we keep track of the
@vulkan.org Video extension developments in

vulkan-video-status.igalia.com

cc: @igalia.com

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jul 22

Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook is out now in paperback! Written by experts with decades of rendering experience, this cookbook equips you with practical, hands-on recipes to master modern 3D graphics development by using bindless #Vulkan.

www.amazon.com/Vulkan-Graph...

Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook: Implement expert-level techniques for high-performance graphics with Vulkan

Amazon.com: Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook: Implement expert-level techniques for high-performance graphics with Vulkan: 9781803248110: Kosarevsky, Sergey, Medvedev, Alexey, Latypov, Viktor, Kaplanyan, Anton: Books

www.amazon.com

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jul 16

Vulkanised 2026 will be held in San Diego in February. If you would like to speak at this premiere event dedicated to Vulkan developers, now is your chance. The call for submissions is open until October 12.

Learn more: vulkan.org/events/vulka...
#vulkan #Vulkanised

Vulkanised 2026 | Vulkan | Cross platform 3D Graphics

Vulkanised is the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API and is a unique technical event that brings the Vulkan developer community together to exchange ideas, solve problems and h...

vulkan.org

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jul 9

Today, with the release of version 1.4.321 of the #Vulkan specification, Vulkan Video is once again being expanded for encoding operations with the introduction of the Encode Intra-refresh extension—the second advanced feature extension for encoding.

khr.io/1l7

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 7

This session is TOMORROW! Please join us for a "getting started" session on the Slang reflection API! Registration info at this link.

Slang Shading Language and Compiler @shader-slang.bsky.social · Jul 1

Join us next week for the next installment of Getting Started with Slang! This webinar will be on the Reflections API.

When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT
Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#Slang #Reflections #API

Getting Started with Slang: Reflections API

shader-slang.org

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jul 7

Vulkanised is coming to San Diego on February 9-11, 2026, and we are pleased to announce the call for submissions is now open until October 12! We are seeking submissions from Vulkan experts eager to share their work.

Learn more: www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...

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The Khronos Group @khronos.org · Jul 1

Khronos Group's Dennis Fu presented at this year's Huawei Developer Conference held in Songshan Lake, China. Dennis gave two presentations: AR/VR for OpenXR and Graphics and Gaming for Vulkan/glTF.

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Jun 27

New update for the @vulkan.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer released.

This adds in support for several new extensions and also is the first version with native builds for Linux ARM64 thanks to an external contribution.

Download at: vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

Vulkan on gpuinfo.org

Vulkan hardware capability database.

vulkan.gpuinfo.org

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jun 26

Synchronization in Vulkan has been a frustrating challenge for many developers. So, in order to simplify, we present the VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts extension which aims to eliminate the need for most layout transitions entirely.

Learn more: khr.io/1ky
#vulkan #synchronization #API

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Jun 21

Playing around with #Vulkan @vulkan.org and JoltPhysics. Integrating Jolt was pretty straight-forward (compared to other physics engines). Both in terms of build setup and code. Nice job @jrouwe.bsky.social :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yc6...

Vulkan and Jolt Physics Engine

YouTube video by Sascha Willems

www.youtube.com

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Collabora @collabora.com · Jun 13

ICYMI ➡️ Just about 6 weeks after we announced #Vulkan 1.1 conformance, #PanVK is now officially conformant with the #Vulkan 1.2 specification on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU! col.la/pvkcf12 #Panfrost #OpenSource @vulkan.org

PanVK reaches Vulkan 1.2 conformance on Mali-G610

PanVK is now conformont for Vulkan 1.2 on Mali-G610 GPUs.

col.la

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jun 16

Push descriptors apply the push constants concept to descriptor sets. Instead of creating per-object descriptor sets, this example passes descriptors at command buffer creation time.

github.com/KhronosGroup...

Vulkan-Samples/samples/extensions/hpp_push_descriptors at main · KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples

One stop solution for all Vulkan samples. Contribute to KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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saschawillems.bsky.social @saschawillems.bsky.social · Jun 3

Finally finished adding @shader-slang.bsky.social shaders to all my (almost 100) @vulkan.org open source samples and wrote a bit about it here:

www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06...

tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)

Shaders for Vulkan samples now also available in slang

A new shading language enters the ring Unlike other 3D graphics apis, Vulkan did decouple human readable shaders from the api using SPIR-V as an intermediate representation. This makes it possible to ...

www.saschawillems.de

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jun 9

New Vulkan Video Decode VP9 extension! With the release of version 1.4.317 of the Vulkan specification, this set of extensions is being expanded with the introduction of VP9 decoding.

khr.io/1j2
#vulkan #vulkanVideo #video

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jun 2

The AMD Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

AMD will be officially supporting the RADV Vulkan API driver. "The Mesa Vulkan driver will be officially supported,"
www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-...

Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are n...

www.phoronix.com

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · Jun 2

NVIDIA Adds Vulkan Support to Smooth Motion Frame Generation — A Boost for Many Games and Emulators
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

Nvidia adds Vulkan compatibility to Smooth Motion frame generation, complete with a boost for emulators

Smooth Motion now supports the same games as AFMF/AFMF2, but still only supports RTX 50 series GPUs

www.tomshardware.com

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