PANEL: The Future of 3D Graphics Development

The future of 3D graphics has never been brighter. This year, new standard extensions for spatial asset capabilities are coming to glTF, the most widely used 3D asset format on the Web. As 3D assets themselves grow more versatile, AI tools and techniques on the horizon promise to accelerate asset creation and enable unprecedented scale.

In this session, experts from the Khronos 3D Formats and 3D Commerce Working Groups will explore how the glTF 3D asset format is evolving in 2025 to enable more portability and functionality, smoother scene-building, and interoperability, exploring newly created and in-progress format extensions for interactivity, audio, procedural textures, and more. Then, our panel of experts will look forward to examine next-generation rendering techniques such as Gaussian splatting and radiance fields. We’ll discuss what approaches are currently accelerating workflows, and what’s promising, but still gestating. This discussion will be an expert, interactive discussion of what’s new and next in 3D asset creation.