Blender Foundation Joins the Khronos Group

Published on 23 October 2020 by Patrick Poti. The Topics are: Blender (701)

The Blender Foundation joined Khronos as an associate member, gaining participation in working groups for open standards including OpenCL, OpenXR and Vulkan.

Archive republication: This article was originally published on 23 October 2020. It has been translated into English and lightly updated for clarity while preserving the original reporting and context.

Khronos Group Membership

The Blender Foundation joined the Khronos Group as an associate member. The membership enabled Blender to participate in working groups for open standards including OpenCL, OpenXR and Vulkan, while giving Khronos participants a closer connection to Blender’s implementation and development work.

Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal described the membership as practical because it would accelerate the exchange of information.

Associate Membership

An associate membership cost $3,500 and provided access to working groups but no voting rights. By comparison, larger developers such as Adobe, Autodesk, Epic Games and Unity Technologies participated at higher membership levels costing between $18,000 and $75,000.

A full list was available on the Khronos membership page. Digital Production’s earlier coverage of OpenXR 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0 provides historical background.