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We're proud to welcome Meta to the Khronos Group Board of Directors! Meta has upgraded their membership from Contributor to Promoter — our highest membership tier — bringing with it a seat on the Board and a deeper commitment to shaping the future of open standards.

We're pleased to welcome Ron Bessems as Meta's newly appointed Director. Ron is no stranger to Khronos, having served as Chair of the OpenXR Working Group for years. His experience and leadership make him a natural fit for the Board.

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The OpenVX Working Group at Khronos has released two extensions developed specifically to address limitations that have long constrained developers building computer vision and AI applications on modern heterogeneous systems. These new extensions, Target Kernel and Node Command extension, both tackle problems that have grown more acute as SoC architectures have become more complex: efficiently distributing computation across dedicated hardware, and adapting processing pipelines dynamically at runtime without touching the data path. The functionality of both extensions will be included as core features in OpenVX 2.0, the next major API release.

The Khronos OpenXR working group has expanded its Extension Matrix to include self-reported data from middleware providers. The OpenXR Extension Matrix now includes middleware support data from Godot, LÖVR, StereoKit, Unity, and Unreal Engine — so developers can see exactly what's available across the full XR stack.

The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group, which manages both the glTF and KTX standards, has launched an Education, Insights, and Outreach (EIO) Subgroup dedicated to equipping creators and developers with the guidance, resources, and real-world information they need to unlock glTF's full potential.

LunarG has shared the results of their 2026 LunarG Vulkan Ecosystem Survey— the annual check-in with the Vulkan developer community. With 360 respondents (a nearly 30% increase from 279 in 2025), the survey captured valuable insights from both commercial developers (49%) and those self-studying or working in academic settings (51%).

The feedback comes from an experienced group: 71% of respondents identified as regular, advanced, or expert Vulkan developers (similar to the 72% in 2025), with commercial users skewing even more toward advanced/expert levels. This experienced perspective helps guide priorities for the Vulkan SDK, validation layers, tools, and broader ecosystem improvements.

Arm's Frame Advisor is a frame analysis tool within Arm Performance Studio, a free suite of profiling and performance analysis tools for Arm CPUs and GPUs. It helps graphics developers capture and analyze Vulkan frames. It also helps them visualize GPU workload structure and identify performance bottlenecks with clarity and precision. Frame Advisor 2026.1 delivers a major upgrade to Vulkan capture. It introduces a new capture pipeline built on GFXReconstruct. This architectural shift modernizes how Frame Advisor collects frame data. It significantly improves capture reliability, correctness, and long-term scalability for complex Vulkan workloads. This new foundation improves the current capture experience.