At SIGGRAPH 2025, held August 10-14 in Vancouver, LunarG delivered two presentations during the Khronos Group’s Vulkan Birds of a Feather (BOF) session, focusing on our latest contributions to the Vulkan ecosystem and developer tools.
Mark Young presented “Capture and Replay of Vulkan and OpenXR,” detailing the capabilities of GFXReconstruct in supporting the Vulkan and OpenXR APIs. The session explored its application in debugging and validating visual compute workloads, providing developers with a robust tool for ensuring application quality and performance. Watch Mark’s presentation here.
Download the “Capture and Replay of Vulkan and OpenXR” SIGGRAPH 2025 presentation.
Karen Ghavam, CEO of LunarG, presented “The Vulkan SDK – Updates Since SIGGRAPH 2024,” outlining recent enhancements to the Vulkan SDK. These updates include improved validation layers, new tooling, and ecosystem advancements, reinforcing LunarG’s commitment to supporting developers across Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms. You can watch Karen’s presentation here.
Download the presentation, “The Vulkan SDK – Updates Since SIGGRAPH 2024”
Additionally, LunarG showcased a video demonstrating KosmicKrisp, a new Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon developed within the Mesa framework. The driver is approaching Vulkan 1.3 conformance and supports various workloads, including the Android Emulator, with ongoing efforts to finalize conformance and integration.
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