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.
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.
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA have formed AOUSD, an open, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD.
Universal Scene Description describes the geometries, materials, physics, and behavior representations of 3D worlds and is the best open and extensible standard language for the 3D internet.
— Jensen Huang, CEO, NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s contributions to help evolve USD as the open foundation of fully interoperable 3D platforms will be a great benefit across industries.
— Steve May, CTO, Pixar Animation Studios
Beyond media and entertainment, USD will give 3D artists, designers, developers, and others the ability to work collaboratively across diverse workflows and applications as they build virtual worlds.
— Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology, NVIDIA
Universal Scene Description describes geometries, materials, physics, and behavior representations of 3D worlds and is the best open and extensible standard language for the 3D internet.
— Jensen Huang, CEO, NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s contributions to help evolve USD as the open foundation of fully interoperable 3D platforms will be a great benefit across industries.
— Steve May, CTO, Pixar Animation Studios
Beyond media and entertainment, USD will give 3D artists, designers, developers and others the ability to work collaboratively across diverse workflows and applications as they build virtual worlds.
— Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology, NVIDIA
NVIDIA continues to accelerate USD’s evolution for use cases, testing the limits of the USD ecosystem through industrial and robotics use cases.
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.
Omniverse core technologies for OpenUSD and RTX are exposed as simple APIs that developers can self-host or use as a managed service.
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