AOUSD, an alliance to advance OpenUSD for open standards for 3D content
Few days ago the Linux Foundation, as well as several of the participants, unveiled the creation of the AOUSD alliance through a blog post (Alliance for OpenUSD) with which Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and NVIDIA together with the Joint Development Foundation, seek to jointly promote OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description) technology, its development and the development of related standards.
about this new "Alliance for OpenUSD", it is mentioned that was created under an independent platform under the auspices of the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), which is overseen by the Linux Foundation.
“At Adobe, we believe in providing artists with a powerful and flexible suite of solutions that run on a variety of devices,” said Guido Quaroni, senior director of Engineering, 3D&I at Adobe…
For whom it is they are unaware of USD (Universal Scene Description), they should know that this is a high performance and extensible software platform which was developed by Pixar, for the collaborative construction of 3D animated scenes, designed to meet the needs of large-scale film and visual effects production.
"OpenUSD will help accelerate the next generation of AR experiences, from art creation to content delivery, and will deliver an ever-growing range of spatial computing applications," said Mike Rockwell, vice president of Apple's Vision Products Group.
USD enables robust interchange between authoring tools of digital content through its expanding set of schematics, covering areas such as geometry, shading, lighting, and physics. In addition, the unique compositability of the Pixar framework provides rich and varied ways to combine assets.
"Whether you're creating computer-generated worlds or digital twins or thinking about the web in 3D, content creators need a cohesive way to collaborate and share data across tools, services and platforms," said Gordon Bradley, Fellow, Media & Entertainment, Autodesk.
As well enables collaborative workflows so many creators can easily work together and more. USD was first released as open source software (as OpenUSD) in 2016, under a modified Apache license.
“OpenUSD provides 3D developers, artists and designers with the complete foundation to tackle large-scale industrial digital content creation and simulation workloads with broad multi-application interoperability,” said Guy Martin, director of open source and standards for NVIDIA .
It is mentioned that OpenUSD is a system to encode scalable, hierarchically linked, static and distributed data in time. OpenUSD provides a set of operators for compositing, resource management, multi-layer processing, and file link management that allow you to link a number of disparate resources into a single graphical scene, while maintaining the ability to process and replace each resource separately. .
For the OpenUSD extension, a plugin system is provided that can be used to integrate with other formats and translate any data into the OpenUSD graphical scene format.
It is mentioned that alliance members will work to enable developers and creators of content describe, compose, and simulate 3D projects on a large scale and create a broader range of 3D products and services. Companies like Epic Games Hexagon, Foundry, IKEA, SideFX, and Unity have also signed on as the first general members of the alliance.
The goal of the alliance is to improve portability between 3D graphics applications. and develop and standardize universal tools to transfer 3D data between applications. Companies interested in ensuring the portability of their products intend to prepare a specification that describes in detail all the features of OpenUSD, which they plan to later approve in the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) as an international standard.
with himor it is sought that AOUSD will also be the main forum for the collaborative definition of technology improvements across the industry, in addition to which the alliance invites a wide range of organizations to join and participate in shaping the future of OpenUSD.
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