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OpenGL is experiencing a resurgence in October 2025 with new extensions like GL_EXT_mesh_shader, driven by niche demands from gaming and legacy projects. This enhances cross-vendor compatibility and performance, signaling the API's enduring viability alongside Vulkan for simplified, rapid development in specialized fields. 

Stride's 4.2.1.2485 release, brings compute shader support to its Vulkan back-end. This new code generates GLSL compute shaders with compute intrinsics. Stride is a free and open-source, cross-platfrom C# game engine fit for both 2D and 3D games. 

Spun out of Brainlab in June 2025, Snke is transforming healthtech with scalable, data-driven innovation powered by AI and big data. We’re more than 350 experts specializing in healthcare IT, advanced visualization and simulation, data science and machine learning. Our newest product is the SnkeXR glasses. SnkeXR is a neutral, open-platform augmented reality (AR) headset purpose-built for the medical industry. It is designed to facilitate and accelerate the adoption and integration of AR technologies into medical devices and workflows. With SnkeXR, medical device companies can develop and deploy customized applications directly on the glasses, or seamlessly connect their devices to enhance performance, functionality, and user experience. Equipped with multiple high-precision sensors and advanced features, SnkeXR delivers real-time spatial awareness, accurate tracking, and intuitive interaction capabilities. This powerful hardware foundation ensures reliable performance in demanding clinical environments and enables the creation of sophisticated medical applications. The SnkeXR glasses are a medical-grade component, engineered and manufactured in full compliance with stringent regulatory and quality standards.

This informative use cases showcases how Google Chrome and Red Games Co. utilized WebGL to develop a web-based version of Crayola's Create and Play application. With WebGL, the resource-intensive mobile app was seamlessly transitioned to a high-performance browser-based platform. 

Project Dogwalk is a Blender Studio R&D project. Blender's goal was to build a small, polished game in just four months using an open source pipeline, with Blender as the Digital Content Creation (DCC) hub, Godot as the game engine, and glTF as the exchange format at the center. Project DogWalk was officially released in July: the end result was not only a charming game about a kid and their oversized dog trudging through snow, but also a deep validation of how far glTF has come as a reliable bridge between authoring and runtime environments.

At XDC 2025 in Vienna, Austria, LunarG proudly showcased KosmicKrisp, a groundbreaking Vulkan-to-Metal Mesa driver designed to bring Vulkan 1.3 conformance to Apple Silicon platforms. Led by Aitor Camacho Larrondo, this innovative project marks a significant milestone in enabling high-performance graphics and compute workloads on macOS, aligning Vulkan capabilities with the power of Apple’s M1-series and beyond.