Universal Scene Description is an open and extensible ecosystem for 3D worlds.
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.
Invented by Pixar Animation Studio, OpenUSD encompasses a collection of fundamental tools and capabilities that accelerate workflows, teams, and projects, whether you’re creating assets and environments for large-scale, AI-enabled virtual worlds or building the tools to make these worlds possible.
NVIDIA, Pixar, Adobe, Apple, and Autodesk co-founded the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), an open, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD.
Join us to shape the future of OpenUSD in Working Groups, participate in Interest Groups, or engage with the community in the AOUSD forums.
NVIDIA continues to accelerate USD’s evolution for use cases beyond visual effects (VFX), testing the limits of the USD ecosystem through industrial, robotics, and AI applications.
NVIDIA is expanding development of OpenUSD to help our industrial and scientific communities build large-scale, physically accurate digital twins. We’re also investing in OpenUSD to include many future capabilities, such as geospatial coordinates, connections to the glTF file format, real-time proceduralism, the ability to run in web browsers, and real-time streaming of IoT data.