In 2025, Khronos reached an impressive milestone: 25 years of member-driven open standards development. The graphics, compute, and media landscape looked wildly different in 2000, when Khronos was formed, than it does today.  Era-defining technologies such as smartphones, cloud computing, and the metaverse hadn’t yet emerged into the marketplace. The founders of Khronos were on the forefront of these emerging technologies. They knew that withou

The Khronos Group is a consortium of technology companies and industry experts that develops open standards for graphics, compute, and vision processing. Through initiatives like Vulkan, OpenGL, and WebGL, Khronos Group defines cross-platform APIs for accelerating graphics rendering and computational tasks across diverse hardware platforms. Developers can learn about Khronos Group's standards, participate in working groups, and leverage open APIs for building high-performance graphics and compute applications.

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The Khronos Group celebrates 25 years of developing open standards for visual computing. Founded in 2000 by graphics and computing pioneers, Khronos created industry-defining APIs including OpenGL ES for mobile 3D graphics, WebGL for browser-based 3D, glTF for 3D asset transmission, OpenCL and SYCL for parallel computing, SPIR-V as a portable GPU intermediate representation, Vulkan for low-level GPU control, OpenXR for cross-platform XR development, and Slang for modern shader programming with AI integration. These standards enabled the evolution from desktop workstations to mobile devices, web browsers, and spatial computing platforms by providing open, interoperable foundations that connect software to hardware across vendors.

Khronos at 25: Shaping Visual Computing with Open Standards

Enabling 3D Acceleration - One Platform at a Time

From Parallel Computing to AI and Spatial Computing

A Legacy—and Future—Built on Collaboration