OpenUSD

Universal Scene Description is an open and extensible ecosystem for 3D worlds.

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Building Interoperable 3D Workflows With OpenUSD

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 Studios, 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.

The Benefits of OpenUSD

OpenUSD is extensible

Extensible

Provides an open, extensible framework and ecosystem with APIs for composing, editing, querying, rendering, collaborating, and simulating within 3D virtual worlds.

OpenUSD is non-destructive

Non-Destructive

Enables non-destructive workflows and collaboration in scene creation and asset aggregation so teams can iterate together.

OpenUSD is collaborative

Collaborative

The file system is agnostic, providing an extensible asset resolver to support any data storage model and allows for disparate data sources.

OpenUSD is customizable

Customizable

Supports custom renderers in a generalized pipeline thanks to its Hydra rendering architecture that provides flexibility in visualizing data.

Alliance for OpenUSD

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 AOUSD Working Groups, participate in AOUSD Interest Groups, or engage with the community in AOUSD Forums.

Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA have formed AOUSD, an open, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD.

Evangelizing OpenUSD

AOUSD fosters the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of OpenUSD to empower developers and content creators across the 3D ecosystem.

Becoming a Member

Join AOUSD to help standardize the 3D ecosystem and define the structure and future features of OpenUSD.

Powered by OpenUSD

Pushing the Limits of OpenUSD

NVIDIA continues to accelerate USD’s evolution for use cases, testing the limits of the USD ecosystem through industrial and robotics use cases.

Autonomous Vehicle Simulation

Autonomous Vehicle Simulation

Explore high-fidelity sensor simulation for safe autonomous vehicle development.

Industrial Facility Digital Twins

Industrial Facility Digital Twins

Build intelligent factories, warehouses, and industrial facilities for the era of physical AI.

Robotics Simulation

Robotics Simulation

Simulate and validate robots in physically-accurate environments.

Get Started With OpenUSD

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Introduction to OpenUSD

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Platform SDK

Platform SDK

For developers looking to build an application from scratch, NVIDIA offers Omniverse SDKs and free developer sample applications that can be easily customized and extended. You can then containerize for local or self-hosted cloud usage​, or host and stream from Omniverse Cloud.

Cloud APIs

Cloud APIs

Omniverse core technologies for OpenUSD and RTX are exposed as simple APIs that developers can self-host or use as a managed service.

Coming soon to Microsoft Azure. 

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Latest News

Into the Omniverse: How OpenUSD and Synthetic Data Are Shaping the Future for Humanoid Robots
February 20, 2025
The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Blueprint for synthetic motion data significantly accelerates the data generation and training of humanoid robots.
Into the Omniverse: OpenUSD Workflows Advance Physical AI for Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles
January 22, 2025
The next frontier of AI is physical AI. Physical AI models can understand instructions and perceive, interact and perform complex actions in the real world to power autonomous machines like robots and self-driving cars.  
Into the Omniverse: How OpenUSD-Based Simulation and Synthetic Data Generation Advance Robot Learning
December 11, 2024
Tools like NVIDIA Isaac Sim enhance synthetic data generation, improving AI model performance and accelerating robotics development.
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