Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Form Alliance for OpenUSD to Drive Open Standards for 3D Content. Alliance for OpenUSD Quote Sheet . Blogs. The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD): Shaping the Future of 3D Technology

Mar 17, 2025 · OpenUSD is a high-performance extensible framework and ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaboratively navigating and constructing 3D scenes. Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is now being embraced by industries beyond the film industry, including architecture, engineering, construction, automotive, and manufacturing.

USD is a high-performance extensible software platform for collaboratively constructing animated 3D scenes, designed to meet the needs of large-scale film and visual effects production.

Universal Scene Description (USD) is a framework for interchange of 3D computer graphics data. The framework focuses on collaboration, non-destructive editing, and enabling multiple views and opinions about graphics data. [1] . USD is used in many industries including visual effects, architecture, design, robotics, CAD, and rendering. [2][3]

Universal Scene Description (USD) is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications. For …

Developed by Pixar, Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is the first open-source software that can robustly and scalably interchange 3D scenes that may be composed of many different assets, sources, and animations, while fostering highly collaborative workflows.

Universal Scene Description (USD) is the first publicly available software that addresses the need to robustly and scalably interchange and augment arbitrary 3D scenes that may be composed from many elemental assets. USD provides for interchange of elemental assets (e.g. …

A curated list of awesome Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) resources and projects. These are hand-picked resources and projects that I find awesome. You might find more or others at the ASWF USD Working Group Wiki. Curated by @maticodes

Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is more than just a file format. It’s an open and extensible ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds.

Aug 3, 2023 · The new Alliance for OpenUSD logo. Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology that offers very robust interoperability across digital applications (tools), data (geometric and non-geometric), and workflows (across multiple industries).