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.
Thread beginning with comment 262901
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2005-06-29
IF this time they work closer with hardware manufacturers and do improve and drive hardware changes with official functions and not only depending of hardware manufacturer's semi-official extension... well, then maybe that'll be true... gradual increasing OGL minor versioning may be one way to do that and create some kind of hardware capable standard (as DirectX is, were versioning is very useful to know the capabilities of the hardware and what applications do support it)
But OGL is much more focused in professional work these days than games, were DirectX reigns... and we need more support from hardware vendors (better drivers) too.
...that said... these changes in the new version looks promising. I hope they get in our hands quickly (implemented I mean...)