Arcane Joins the Khronos Group

Arcane Technologies is now a member of the Khronos Group which manages well-known API specifications such as OpenGL, OpenCL and WebGL. The Khronos Group is an international industry consortium  focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free application programming interfaces (APIs) for authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Khronos members may contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, vote at various stages before public deployment, and accelerate delivery of their platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. Companies including AMD, Apple Intel, Imagination, Nvidia and Sony are all board members.

Being part of the Khronos Group is a perfect match for Arcane Technologies regarding our company expertise and vision.  We develop 3D interactive software applications as well as device drivers no matter onto which platform or operating system (PC, web, mobile, etc…).  We had the opportunity to work on various projects with different hardware vendors as well. We are proud to contribute to the maintenance and evolution of those industry-leading open standards that are powering innovation.

Mathieu Benoit, Director Business Development

The following is an exhaustive API and standards list managed by the Khronos Group:

• OpenGL, a cross-platform computer graphics API
• OpenCL, a cross-platform computation API
• COLLADA,  a file-format intended to facilitate interchange of 3D assets
• OpenGL SC, a safety critical profile of OpenGL ES designed to meet the needs of the safety-critical market
• OpenKODE, an API for providing abstracted, portable access to operating system resources such as file systems, networks and math libraries
• OpenGL ES, a derivative of OpenGL for use on mobile and embedded systems, such as cell phones, portable gaming devices, and more
• OpenVG, an API for accelerating processing of 2D vector graphics
• OpenMAX, a layered set of three programming interfaces of various abstraction levels, providing access to multimedia functionality
• OpenSL ES, an audio API tuned for embedded systems, standardizing access to features such as 3D positional audio and MIDI playback
• EGL, an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system
• OpenWF, APIs for 2D graphics composition and display control
• OpenML, an API for capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media
• WebGL, a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES within a browser on any platform supporting the OpenGL or OpenGL ES graphics standards
• WebCL, a JavaScript binding to OpenCL within a browser

• StreamInput, an API for consistently handling input devices

• OpenVX, Hardware acceleration API for Computer Vision applications and libraries

About The Khronos Group

The Khronos Group is an American not-for-profit member-funded industry consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon, focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free application programming interfaces (APIs) for authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Khronos members may contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, vote at various stages before public deployment, and accelerate delivery of their platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.

For more information: http://www.khronos.org/