Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
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Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#2Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
OpenUSD sounds like something bitcoin-related. The USD acronym is so known for being for US Dollars, why would they want to overload it...
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#3Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
for a second I've thought they are creating a new crypto
stable coin oO
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#4Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
> Alliance to foster global collaboration for Universal Scene Description (USD)
UNISD? UNIversal Scene Description
At least better than Universal Scene Specific (USS)
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#5Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
OpenUSD sounds like something bitcoin-related. The USD acronym is so known for being for US Dollars, why would they want to overload it...
Pixar has been using USD for years, OpenUSD is the rebranding of it as an open format.
> Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is an extensible framework and ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. Originally developed by Pixar Animation Studios, USD, also referred to as OpenUSD, is more than a file format. It’s an open-source 3D scene description used for 3D content creation and interchange among different tools. [1]
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#6Something I've always wondered about: All of these alliances for this and that format/standard/whatever - do they end up hiring some secretarial staff in some office for several decades?
There should be several hundreds active corporate alliances now.
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#7Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
what a terrible name, I thought this was some kind of USD stablecoin
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#8Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
I am so glad that they picked an acronym so obvious so as to not confuse anyone.
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#9Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
> Alliance to foster global collaboration for Universal Scene Description (USD) UNISD? UNIversal Scene Description At least better than Universal Scene Specific (USS)
Even just OpenSD would be a vast improvement. Presume the "open" replaces "universal" (which isn't a 1:1 mapping, but still works as a branding exercise) and you DON'T have what literally 100% of the non-graphic-artist HN commentariat thought: that they're weirdly doing a stablecoin.
Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
#10Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here. I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
OpenUSD sounds like something bitcoin-related. The USD acronym is so known for being for US Dollars, why would they want to overload it...
As someone in and out of the USD ecosystem for years (starting around 2014 or so), this comment is especially hilaruous.