Intel Announces OpenGL ES 3.0 Plans For Mesa

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Phoronix: Intel Announces OpenGL ES 3.0 Plans For Mesa

Coming out of SIGGRAPH 2012 is a new branch of Mesa from Intel's Open-Source Technology Center that's working on full open-source OpenGL ES 3.0 support for Intel HD hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE1Njg

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Good news.

Hopefully GLES 3.0 becomes a "base line" target across all platforms (except for Windows 8 which is killing off everything but DX11 support in Metro), so going forward, application developers can improve quality without worrying their software wont run on OSS Linux driver.

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As a first gen Core i3 owner, I’m not too impressed. (According to the photo on Ian’s blog, first gen Intel HD Graphics isn’t supported.) My computer isn’t even 2 years old. But then it’s too slow and/or buggy for most 3D games of the past decade anyway.

So if this was to become a “baseline target”, many people would not be able to run new 3D software. I don’t think it’s a good idea to force people to buy new computers every year.