Great moments in gaming: Google bringing the new Vulkan graphics standard in future Android versions

If you haven't heard about the new Vulkan graphics standard, it's time to start paying attention, as Google just created a dedicated team to start employing it for Android. Vulkan is better than the current graphics APIs in the sense that it provides direct access to the GPU, allowing developers to fine-tune the resources their game or other app will gobble from the graphics subsystem, down to the individual cores and memory.