Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk and Nvidia announce the formation of the OpenUSD Alliance

CTOnews.com, August 1 (Xinhua)-- tonight, Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, NVIDIA and the Linux Foundation affiliate Development Foundation (JDF) announced the formation of the OpenUSD Alliance (AOUSD) to promote the standardization, development, evolution and growth of Pixar's generic scene description technology.

According to reports, the alliance aims to promote the standardization of the 3D ecosystem by promoting the development of Open Universal Scene Description, and further enhance the interaction and operability of 3D tools and data. The alliance will enable developers and content creators to describe, combine and simulate large-scale 3D projects, and establish an expanding range of 3D-enabled products and services.

Members of the AOUSD steering Committee will speak at the Academy Software Foundation Open Source Day event on August 6 and the Autodesk Vision series SIGGRAPH conference in Room 404A at 1: 00 p.m. on August 8. CTOnews.com will bring you more detailed reports.

Mike Rockwell, vice president of Apple Visual products Group, said: "OpenUSD will help accelerate the next-generation AR experience, from artistic creation to content delivery, and generate expanding spatial computing applications." "Apple has always been an active contributor to the development of USD, an important technology for the groundbreaking VisionOS platform and new Reality Composer Pro development tools. We look forward to promoting its development into a widely adopted standard."