Khronos Group

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The Khronos Group is an "industry consortium" founded in 2000 and dedicated to creating APIs to "enable the authoring and playback of rich media on a wide variety of platforms and devices". All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.

On the 31st July, 2006 it was announced at SIGGRAPH that control of the OpenGL specification would be passed to the group.^[1]

[edit] Working Groups

OpenGL [2]
OpenGL ES, an Embedded Systems version of OpenGL appropriate for use on cell phones, portable gaming devices, and more, [3].
OpenML, an API for "capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media," [4].
OpenVG, an API for accelerating processing of 2D vector graphics, [5].
OpenMAX, an API providing access to multimedia codecs, [6].
OpenSL ES, an audio API tuned for embedded systems, standardizing access to features such as 3D positional audio and MIDI playback. [7].
COLLADA, a file-format intended to facilitate interchange of 3D assets.