Khronos Group

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The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free APIs to enable the authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic 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]

An article at SPIE Electronic Imaging 2006 Multimedia on Mobile Devices gives an overview of many mobile APIs, mostly from Khronos.^[2]

[edit] Working Groups

OpenGL, a cross-platform computer graphics API.
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, a layered set of three programming interfaces of various abstraction levels, providing access to multimedia functionality, [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.
OpenKODE