Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 12th Aug 2007 23:10 UTC, submitted by irbis
The OpenGL Architecture Review Board officially announced OpenGL 3 on August 8th 2007 at the Siggraph Birds of a Feather (BOF) in San Diego, CA. OpenGL 3 is the official name for what has previously been called OpenGL Longs Peak. OpenGL 3 is a true industry effort with broad support from all vendors in the ARB. The OpenGL 3 specification is on track to be finalized at the next face-to-face meeting of the OpenGL ARB, at the end of August. This means the specification can be publicly available as soon as the end of September, after the mandatory 30 day Khronos approval period has passed. Also presented were the changes to the OpenGL Shading Language that will accompany OpenGL 3. For more details check here, here and here.
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2005-07-06
The positive thing for the video game industry is that opengl is truly cross platform.
Most notably, it provides the same feature set under windows xp and vista, unlike directx, so it will become an attractive option for the gaming industry if they are uncertain whether they should target dx10 (new features but uncertainty about the vista market) or dx9 (no new features, risk of releasing technologically subpar games if the vista market does suddenly explode)