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02:53 - Warren Moore Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Metal By Example

03:58 - Working for Apple => Doing Metal (Transition)

05:15 - 3D Graphics APIs

• 3D Game Engines (Unity, Unreal)
• 3D Rendering
• OpenGL
  • GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
  • glVertex

11:14 - Metal = Objective-C API    

13:11 - The Programmable Pipeline (Shading)

• Vertex Shader
• Fragment Shader
• Shading Languages:
  • GLSL
  • The Metal Shading Language
• Rasterization

19:40 - Metal

• Precomputed Render States
• Explicit Memory Management

22:07 - Draw Call Batching

• UE4 "Zen Garden" Using Metal API for iOS 8 Revealed at WWDC

25:30 - Testing Metal

26:01 - Who Is Metal For? What Else Can Metal Do? (Besides 3D Graphics)

• Task Parallelism
• Compute Programming (GPGPU = General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units)
• Signal Processing

33:35 - Getting Started with Metal

• Metal By Example
• CAMetalLayer

38:15 - Multithreading

• MTLCommandQueue

41:34 - Metal Adoption and Future

• Metal For Developers (Apple)
• OSX Demand?

45:11 - 3D Graphics Programming Resources

• SceneKit
• Sprite Kit
• Core Animation
• Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics by Eric Lengyel
• OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3 by Dave Shreiner
• David H. Eberly
• Mike McShaffry