Author Archives: Ron

OpenGL-ES 3.0 Proliferation

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Ron

The Android dashboard provides some useful information about the Android environment in the wild. One interesting thing is they provide values for the supported OpenGL-ES versions. Since OpenGL-ES 3.0 started showing up after KitKat was released, its numbers have been … Continue reading →

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I’ll be teaching Modern OpenGL-ES 3.0 & 3.1 Programming @ AnDevCon in Boston

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Ron

I will be speaking at AnDevCon in Boston, MA this coming May. My half-day tutorial starts Tuesday May 22nd at 9am. I’ll be talking about Modern OpenGL-ES, basically covering all the new stuff in 3.0 AND 3.1. The tutorial will … Continue reading →

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Oculus Rift Musings: Part 1 – Oculus at GDC2014

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Ron

I’ve played with the initial SDK and unlike some folks I don’t get motion sickness and the lag was barely noticeable. It was a solid 1st effort and I was looking forward to trying out Crystal Cove, Oculus VR’s 2nd … Continue reading →

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OpenGL 3.1 Specs released at GDC

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Ron

The Khronos Group made a formal announcement at GDC 2014 on the OpenGL-ES 3.1 API specification. It turns out that with the 3.0 spec released late 2014 we’ve been waiting for the hardware to catch up to the API. As … Continue reading →

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OpenGL @ GDC

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Ron

There are a bunch of happenings @ GDC regarding OpenGL this year. The Khronos meetings – OpenGL, OpenGL-ES, & WebGL Meeting room #262 is located on the West Mezzanine level of the Moscone convention center, just down from the South … Continue reading →

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Sony to announce VR HMD at GDC?

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Ron

The rumor is that Sony might announce its Oculus competitor at GDC – speculation fueled by two of the presenters (Marks and Mikhailov) who have some experience with new technology and might signal the announcement of a commercial implementation of … Continue reading →

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VOGL- Valve’s new OpenGL Debugger

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Ron

At Valve’s Steam Dev Days presentation there was a presentation on their new OpenGL tracer/debugger (VOGL). Debugging OpenGL applications has always been way too hard. You could debug graphics for a while using DX on a Windows machine, but that’s … Continue reading →

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New Oculus Head Mounted Display Wows them at CES

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Ron

Oculus VR marches on, WOWing folks at CES that have gotten a chance to  try out their new Crystal Cove 1080p OLED display plus the newly added motion tracking ability courtesy  of the dots embedded in the headset and monitored … Continue reading →

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