Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR
Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.
Category: Vulkan
Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made
Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' has been merged into Mesa
Something I entirely missed when writing about Mesa and OpenGL, is that the open source Vulkan driver "radv" has been merged into Mesa.
The Dolphin emulator for GameCube & Wii games merges in Vulkan support
This is awesome, Dolphin the big GameCube & Wii emulator has now merged in the code for official Vulkan support.
Unity have released a preview of the Unity editor with the Vulkan API
This is pretty exciting, Unity have released a preview update build of the Unity engine with the Vulkan renderer.
The Talos Principle now renders correctly in 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver
Good news for Vulkan and AMD GPU fans, as David Airlie has put up a new blog post letting us know that The Talos Principle now renders correctly in this new open source AMD Vulkan driver.
A Unity developer is teasing the Vulkan API in the Unity engine
This is very cool and quite exciting, Na'Tosha Bard, a developer for Unity has teased a little shot of Unity + Vulkan. Looks like it's running on Ubuntu too.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD can now run Dota 2
A pretty good milestone has been achieved with the open source Vulkan driver for AMD that Dave Airlie has been working on with Bas Nieuwenhuizen. It can now run Dota 2.
Ashes of the Singularity developers say Vulkan for their game is pretty far along, Linux after
I've been keeping an eye on Ashes of the Singularity for a long time now, as the RTS game does look pretty cool. The developers have stated their move to Vulkan is pretty far along and Linux will be evaluated after.
CRYENGINE is planning to add in Vulkan support around October for the 5.3 release
CRYENGINE, the other major game engine is adding in Vulkan support in their 5.3 release due in October.
Want to learn some Vulkan API? There's a Vulkan Tutorial website up now
Alexander Overvoorde has written up a nice looking tutorial website for people looking to get their hands dirty with the new Vulkan API.
The Talos Principle updated with more Vulkan stability and performance
Croteam have continued developing their Vulkan backend for The Talos Principle and have pushed the last beta to stable and released another beta with more Vulkan work.
Fancy playing Quake with the Vulkan API? Now you can
I'm a little late on reporting this due to being ill, but Quake has been ported to Vulkan and it's open source of course.
openFrameworks C++ toolkit now has a Vulkan backend that supports Linux
I'm going to be honest, I had never heard of openFrameworks until today. It claims it's a C++ toolkit that glues together several commonly used libraries to help you work quickly. They are working on a Vulkan backend that now supports Linux.
Vulkan backend for the Dolphin emulator is now feature complete
On the github pull request to bring in the Vulkan backend for the Dolphin emulator, it now reads as feature complete.
paraLLel, a Vulkan renderer for the N64 emulator used by RetroArch
RetroArch now has a pre-alpha Vulkan renderer for their N64 emulator. This is pretty cool to see and hopefully it helps performance.
User submission: Vulkan tutorials now up on github
A user submission to let you know about their Vulkan tutorials that are now available to check out on github.
New Steam Client Beta adds fixes for 'upcoming' Vulkan games
So here's something fun, the latest Steam Client Beta has 'Fixed compatibility issues with some upcoming Vulkan games'. Begin mindless speculation.
Ashes of the Singularity still plans Vulkan and Linux & SteamOS support
A developer of Ashes of the Singularity has stated very clearly that both Vulkan and Linux/SteamOS are still planned for the big RTS game.
Croteam's Vulkan presentation slides from Reboot Develop conference are now online
Croteam, who were the first game developer to put out a game with Vulkan (Talos Principle) have now put up their slides to their Vulkan talk.
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