5 companies form Alliance for OpenUSD for metaverse 3D graphics standard
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Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).
The group that aims to promote the growth and standardization of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) technology, which is the foundation for Nvidia’s Omniverse platform and could one day be a standard for graphics for a practical “metaverse.” The companies are tapping the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation to help with the effort.
The companies plan to develop written specifications that detail the features of OpenUSD in the hopes of creating a standard for other groups to adopt. This will allow for greater compatibility and wider adoption, integration, and implementation of the technology, and will also allow other standards bodies to include it in their own specifications.
Universal Scene Description was invented at Pixar and is the technological foundation of the company’s state-of-the-art animation pipeline, said Steve May, CTO at Pixar and chairperson of AOUSD.
“We’re really excited about this new technology initiative,” May said in a press briefing. “The Alliance for OpenUSD is an open nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering standardization, development, evolution, and growth of OpenUSD. And all of these founding members believe strongly in USD and what it represents. They have all made significant contributions and investment to advancing OpenUSD and they have come together to create this organization to serve the industry at large.”
The companies didn’t specifically talk about the “metaverse” in their briefing material, but
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