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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

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Post by MAGZine »

This is a big deal. I used to work at Autodesk, trying to build software that made 3D blueprints available to everyone, everywhere. Rendering things on mobile is hard, in part because you need to writer bespoke renderers, and in part because the data formats for the assets are not aligned.

Pixar developed USD, and it should really help to standardize 3D tech. In particular, I hope that USD can help make it easier to build high-performance rendering tech for a variety of applications that might not receive so much attention from the 3D graphics people (this is one thing video games do quite well, from a CS approach!)

Having some big names behind the standard should help, but of course, the proof will be in the pudding as to how meaningful their contributions are, and how much their involvement pushes the adoption of the standard.

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by jimbob45 »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #2
dang wrote: post #20

Stub 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...

Maybe this is the new anti-crypto meta - we proactively take away the best acronyms that the crypto community would want to use.

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by theogravity »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #2
dang wrote: post #20

Stub 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...

I also thought this was crypto related and felt it was odd Adobe, Pixar, and Autodesk were involved.

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by zokier »

For people complaining about the name, USD has been already a thing publicly since at least 2013, and internally probably fair bit before that: https://www.cgchannel.com/2013/10/pixars-usd-system-the-new-...

I did also happen to find small comment about the name from an interview:

> Just a little fun an anecdote, the original name ... And we were looking at the extension for the file. Technically when I do something that says layered scene description. But the extension LSD we thought it was a little too trippy, so we decided that we couldn't go in that route. So that's why the universal came, because it feels a little too far, but technically it was supposed to be a layered scene description. But anyway, we couldn't use that.

https://cesium.com/open-metaverse-podcast/the-genesis-of-usd...

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by TylerE »

disillusioned wrote: post #9
serhack_ wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Then it sounds like AI.

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by depereo »

TylerE wrote: post #15
disillusioned wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then it sounds like AI.

Stable Diffusion isn't a familiar term outside a very niche audience. Probably over 50% of the earth's population is familiar with checking 'USD' exchange rates.

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by jsheard »

hiidrew wrote: post #17

Unity and Epic seem like two glaringly omissions from this.

Unreal already supports USD: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/universal-scene-desc...

USD has the most traction in the offline rendering world, but it's creeping into gamedev workflows too as a replacement for FBX.

Re: Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

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Post by dang »

Stub 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.

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