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Khronos at 25: Shaping Visual Computing with Open Standards

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Neil Trevett

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Khronos Group blog post by Neil Trevett marking twenty-five years of open visual-computing standards. This URL is a single anniversary essay, not an API spec.

It recounts founding members and interoperability goals, then surveys OpenGL stewardship, OpenGL ES, WebGL, glTF, OpenCL, SYCL, SPIR-V, Vulkan, OpenXR, and Slang. Themes include bringing 3D and compute to mobile, web, AI, and spatial computing, plus working-group collaboration and the Metaverse Standards Forum.

Suits a broad graphics and game-dev audience at all levels seeking historical context. Deep knowledge of any one standard is optional.

Free on khronos.org as narrative prose with section headings; no slides or code downloads.

Useful as a compact map of how Khronos APIs relate when onboarding to the open-standards ecosystem.