Austin Game Conference To Host Khronos DevU

The Game Initiative has announced that the 2005 Austin Game Conference, to be held on October 27th-28th, will also host the Khronos Developer University (DevU), held on October 26th at the same Austin location. The Khonos DevU is intended to provide up-to-the-minute training on industry standard APIs for embedded graphics and video processing. These APIs, including OpenGL ES and OpenVG, are relevant to state-of-the-art game development on emerging handheld platforms including cell phones. Khronos DevU is a worldwide series of educational events run by the Khronos Group to encourage adoption of the Khronos family of open, royalty-free APIs which are enabling the billion-dollar, billion-user mobile multimedia market. More information on the schedule for the DevU day is available at its official website. "The Austin Game Conference has become a must-attend event for developers of mobile and multimedia content, making it a natural venue for the Khronos Developer University," said Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group and vice president of embedded content at NVIDIA. "Khronos DevU is also a great venue for silicon, software and platform vendors to establish a two-way dialog with games developers to truly understand the issues, challenges and opportunities they face - so we can work effectively together to grow the mobile gaming market."