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Cameras aren’t just for taking snapshots

Cameras are everywhere and in everything. The market and applications have exploded in the last ten years. But a cohesive set of standard APIs has been slow to emerge making compatibility challenging. Hoping to wrestle the multi-tentacled beast under control, Khronos has teamed up with the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and formed a new Khronos Working Group to develop ...

Jon Peddie

Cameras are everywhere and in everything. The market and applications have exploded in the last ten years. But a cohesive set of standard APIs has been slow to emerge making compatibility challenging. Hoping to wrestle the multi-tentacled beast under control, Khronos has teamed up with the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and formed a new Khronos Working Group to develop an open, royalty-free API standard for controlling camera system runtimes in embedded, mobile, industrial, XR, automotive, and scientific markets. Interest and desire is high, and during 2021 over 70 companies participated in an EMVA/Khronos-hosted Exploratory Group to develop a Scope
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