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SIGGRAPH 2007 - The OpenGL ARB officially announced OpenGL 3

Aug 09, 2007 - The OpenGL ARB officially announced OpenGL 3 on August 8th 2007 at the Siggraph Birds of a Feather (BOF) in San Diego, CA. OpenGL 3 is the official name for what has previously been called OpenGL Longs Peak.

OpenGL 3 is a great increase in efficiency in an already excellent API. It provides a solid, consistent and well thought out basis for the future. OpenGL 3 is a true industry effort with broad support from all vendors in the ARB. The OpenGL 3 specification is on track to be finalized at the next face-to-face meeting of the OpenGL ARB, at the end of August. This means the specification can be publicly available as soon as the end of September, after the mandatory 30 day Khronos approval period has passed. Also presented today were the changes to the OpenGL Shading Language that will accompany OpenGL 3.

For more information, refer to the original news here.

For more details see the OpenGL BOF presentations here.


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yay!

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I'll second that yay.

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Just hope the drivers come out soon and are good so that i can start porting. I believe all older hardware will still be able to support OpenGL3 with new drivers.

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