OpenGL 2.0 is still in its development infancy, though 3Dlabs does offer some insight into the new features needed for this aging standard to maintain acceptance within the graphics marketplace. As noted earlier, the concepts and ideas presented here are only preliminary at best. 3Dlabs has issued no formal proposals to the industry, though it has engaged in much discussion about the possibility of a new OpenGL standard. The information gathered for this article was obtained through various discussion overviews published by 3DLabs and associated companies. Still, it appears 3DLabs and other developers are steadily moving forward with development of a new and exciting OpenGL standard that strives to offer the best compatibility with sustained performance across the widest variety of hardware configurations available.