SIGGRAPH 2023: OpenUSD Day

10 sessions
August 2023
, Product Manager, Spatial Computing, NVIDIA
Explore the cutting-edge integration of raytracing and OpenUSD for immersive workflows. Learn how OpenUSD enables unprecedented fidelity in virtual experiences anywhere in your pipeline without compromising physically accurate lighting or materials.
August 2023
, Senior Director of Engineering of 3D & Immersive, Adobe
, Director of the Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Adobe
Adobe is adopting OpenUSD as the default 3D data interchange format across its creative applications. In this talk we will present the latest additions to Adobe tools to facilitate lossless interchange of 3D assets and scenes.
August 2023
, Director of 3D Technology, Cesium
We'll explore the use of OpenUSD, 3D Tiles, and geospatial data to create rich digital twins. Gain insights into data pipelines, 3D Tiles streaming, scene management, and performance considerations, and hear about the future of USD and geospatial.
August 2023
, NVIDIA
Synthetic data bootstraps training for data-hungry applications such as autonomous vehicles (AV). OpenUSD forms the foundation to seamlessly generate this data at scale. Join this session to learn how we apply USD to transform AV development.
August 2023
, Senior Rendering Developer, SideFX
Hear from the SideFX team leveraging NVIDIA technology to power the industry's newest USD renderer: Karma XPU. This session will also help you gain insight into how Karma XPU integrates with Houdini's USD-based Solaris framework.
August 2023
, Sr. Software Engineer , NVIDIA
, Pipeline Developer, NVIDIA
, NVIDIA
, Principal Technical Artist, NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s creative group shows how Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) based pipelines to build a USD-based pipeline to fit our projects varying in size, and how we are leveraging easily accessible platforms and tools for our own future development.
August 2023
, Principal Engineer, Unity
Explore the adoption of OpenUSD in the Wētā FX pipeline, leveraging USD structure to meet the needs of different workflows, identifying common usage patterns to define guidelines for sharing and non-destructive editing of USD data.
August 2023
, Principal Software Engineer, NVIDIA
, Pipeline Developer, NVIDIA
What does an optimal asset structure in OpenUSD look like across a wide range of uses across industries? We’ll help you zero in on choosing the right fit for your content pipelines, by considering all aspects of asset and data structure in OpenUSD.
August 2023
, Distinguished Engineer , NVIDIA
, Principal Engineer, NVIDIA
, Principal System Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Demand is increasing for real time performance of massively complex OpenUSD scenes. Learn how NVIDIA is building a real time framework for large-scale OpenUSD scenes with scene optimization, GPU and cloud scaling, and other runtime technologies. 
August 2023
, Pixar Studio Tools, Pixar
, NVIDIA
Learn how Hydra 2.0 powers more flexible and interoperable runtime behaviors in the OpenUSD ecosystem. See it unlock the possibility of deploying new data models and business logic to media and entertainment and a broad set of industrial use cases.