Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform API, open standard for 3D graphics and computing. Vulkan targets high-performance real-time 3D graphics applications, such as video games and interactive media.
The Vulkan Graphics API is created by The Khronos Group which is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 160 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards and vibrant eco-systems for 3D graphics, VR, augmented reality, parallel computation, vision acceleration and machine learning.