Author Archives: Ron

CES 2014: OpenGL-ES Working Group plans new version in 2014

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Ron

An announcement at CES by the Khronos OpenGL-ES Working Group announces the intent to ship a new  version of OpenGL beyond 3.0 in 2014. This version will be backwardly compatible with OpenGL ES 2.0 and 3.0. Not much detail was … Continue reading →

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EGL – The initialization interface for OpenGL-ES

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Ron

EGL is the syntactic sugar between the particular hardware & operating system your program is currently running on and OpenGL. OpenGL is agnostic to the underlying operating system’s windows system. EGL is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs (like OpenGL-ES … Continue reading →

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Oculus Rift – may just be able to succeed, and change the world as we know it

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Ron

I’ve had some fun playing with my Oculus Rift dev kit. It’s got some great features, it’s got the latency problem whipped, and just needs to work a bit on tools and upping the resolution – if’s a great proof-of-concept, … Continue reading →

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Win8 Metro: Harder than it has to be….

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Ron

I’ve been playing with Metro off and on for a few months now, my frustration levels mounting everything I try to do something I already know how to do. Most of this I’ve come to realize is because of Microsoft’s … Continue reading →

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Microsoft decided not to share finished Win 8.1 with developers.. why?

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Ron

Normally I get access (as an MSDN member) to the RTM (i.e. finished version) of all Microsoft OS versions. This is the way that most devs. get access to the OS’s, tools, etc. For developers this is important since this … Continue reading →

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OpenGL-ES 3.0 Specification Published.

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Ron

The OpenGL ES 3.0 specification was publicly released at Siggraph this year – coinciding with OpenGL’s 20th anniversary. OpenGL ES 3.0 is backwards compatible with OpenGL ES 2.0, enabling applications to incrementally add new visual features to applications. OpenGL ES … Continue reading →

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Working with C++0X/C++11: Lambdas – part 4 – using closures

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Ron

In my last C++11 blog I talked about creating functions that takes a storage location by reference and return a function that takes a string input, parses it and stores the resulting value into the storage location. So we’re creating … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality: Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing turns your skin into an input device

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Ron

AR has a major usability problem – how to interact with the program – after all you can’t (easily) carry around a keyboard. MIT’s Sixth Sense uses a video camera to discern how you are interacting with a projected interface. … Continue reading →

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