Editorial analysis: For AI, graphics, and spatial-computing practitioners, renewed coordination around open standards affects cross-platform deployment and hardware acceleration choices. Per the Khronos Group blog, Khronos presented a set of Birds of a Feather (BOF) activities at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 in Hong Kong, held December 15-18, 2025. According to the same blog, the program included a December 17 extended “Fast Forward” session covering recent work on **OpenXR**, **ANARI**, **WebGL**, and **glTF**, a deeper dive into the evolution of **Vulkan** and the **Slang** shading language, and a Khronos Machine Learning Council session titled “When Graphics and AI Collide: Accelerating AI with Open Standards.” The blog also lists December 18 BOFs on XR and spatial computing, including the “XR and Spatial Computing: Transforming the Future with OpenXR” session and discussion of the Spatial Entities extension and recent contributions from PICO.Read More
