Vulkan Slides Now Available From Khronos' Vancouver Event

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vulkan Slides Now Available From Khronos' Vancouver Event

Yesterday The Khronos Group hosted a one-day workshop in Vancouver, Canada with all things Vulkan...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Vancouver-2017

[tegs]

I'd love to see more companies using Vulkan (since there are like 4 games using it) considering that supporters have put so much effort in talking about it and advocating it online and in events. Drivers are in a good state (at least on the Nvidia side) in GNU/Linux, so let's see more support!!!

[tildearrow]

I'd love to see more companies using Vulkan (since there are like 4 games using it) considering that supporters have put so much effort in talking about it and advocating it online and in events. Drivers are in a good state (at least on the Nvidia side) in GNU/Linux, so let's see more support!!!

Only if Microsoft stops promoting DirectX 12 to companies, Apple drops Metal, and/or adopts Vulkan...

[tildearrow]

Unapproved? How, if I have more than 5 posts and I never insult?

[Michael]

Only if Microsoft stops promoting DirectX 12 to companies, Apple drops Metal, and/or adopts Vulkan...

Should be taken care of now, sorry about that. Sometimes the forum software still seems to like to make its own sporadic decisions and put stuff in the mod queue, but at least it's much less than before.

[tegs]

Only if Microsoft stops promoting DirectX 12 to companies, Apple drops Metal, and/or adopts Vulkan...

Microsoft can promote all they want, but it is up to the developers to be willing to make the leap. Its just that they are so used to the DirectX ecosystem and Vulkan is probably too difficult for them.

[Ancurio]

I'd love to see more companies using Vulkan (since there are like 4 games using it) considering that supporters have put so much effort in talking about it and advocating it online and in events. Drivers are in a good state (at least on the Nvidia side) in GNU/Linux, so let's see more support!!!

There is a lot of underestimated inertia in this industry. Give it some time.