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. It can be used for creating assets and environments for large-scale, AI-enabled virtual worlds or building the tools to make these worlds possible.

The Benefits of OpenUSD

Extensible

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

Non-Destructive

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

Collaborative

Leverage file-system agnostic documents with OpenUSD that can support any data storage model and location, enabling aggregation of  varied  data sources. 

Standardized

Evolving under the open governance of the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) as a standard of standards to aggregate data sources across domains and industries.

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.

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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.

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Becoming a Member

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

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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

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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

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

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Industrial Facility Digital Twins

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

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Robotics Simulation

Simulate and validate robots in physically accurate environments.

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NVIDIA’s Work in OpenUSD

Latest Contributions

NVIDIA is expanding the development of OpenUSD to help our industrial and scientific communities build large-scale, physically accurate digital twins.

SimReady Standardization Workflow for AI Factories

This workflow standardizes requirements and processes to develop simulation-ready capabilities and assets for AI factories.

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OpenUSD for Robotics

OpenUSD asset structure pipeline integrates robotic assets to one common language, unifying robotic workflows.

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UTF-8 Identifiers and PEGTL Parsing

Unicode (UTF-8) characters in scene object names and keys are now supported, enabled by PEGTL-based parsers.

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UsdSemantics Labels for Physical AI

UsdSemantics schema expands to synthetic 3D data generation to help further physical AI development.

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Introduction to OpenUSD

Discover the essential knowledge developers need to begin creating  with one of the most transformative technologies in 3D content creation in this video series.

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Learn Robotics Fundamentals

Build your skills in simulation, perception, and robot learning with interactive lessons in Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.

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Learn OpenUSD Foundations

Explore essential concepts and unlock the full potential of an open ecosystem built for scalable, collaborative 3D worlds.

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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.

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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.

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