The Khronos Group celebrate 25 years of open standards

The Khronos Group have released a series of videos today to celebrate 25 years of open standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and more.

Who are The Khronos Group? They're the member-driven consortium that oversees many things we rely on for not just gaming on Linux but all sorts of industries. They're the ones pushing for open standards, and keeping them all up to date as they work with various companies and other organisations on the likes of: OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenXR, Vulkan, glTF, OpenCL and more - it's a long list.

See one of the videos below with Khronos Group president Neil Trevett:

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From their blog post:

Twenty-five years ago, a group of competitors faced a choice that would reshape visual computing. Smartphones, GPU acceleration, and cloud computing hadn't yet emerged, but the founders of Khronos stood at the forefront of nascent technologies poised to transform how billions of people experience the digital world. United by a critical belief—that without consensus-driven interoperability standards, fragmentation and duplicated effort would severely limit these transformative innovations—they chose collaboration over competition, because open standards only work when built by the industry they serve.

It's hard to imagine where we would be now without Vulkan.

See the full post with the rest of the videos on The Khronos Group website.