Tech companies are getting together to crate an open, royalty-free standard for presenting accelerated 3-D graphics online. Included in the consortium are Google, Adobe, Intel, Apple, and others.

The Khronos Group, which focuses “on the creation of open standard, royalty-free APIs,” has attracted some powerful new members. Google, Apple, Dell, and several other companies have joined the consortium. Khronos made the announcement at the SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition in Boston.