Universal Scene
Description (USD)

• Michael Kass, Senior Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
  
• Rev Lebaredian, VP Simulation Technology and Omniverse Engineering, NVIDIA
  
• Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering of 3D & Immersive, Adobe
  
• Steve May, Vice President, CTO, Pixar
• Mason Sheffield, Director of Creative Technology, Lowe’s Innovation Labs, Lowe's
• Natalya Tatarchuk, Distinguished Technical Fellow and Chief Architect, Professional Artistry & Graphics Innovation, Unity
• Matt Sivertson, Vice President and Chief Architect, Media & Entertainment, Autodesk
• Mattias Wikenmalm, Senior Expert, Volvo Cars

Join this session to hear from a panel of distinguished technical leaders as they talk about Universal Scene Description (USD) as a standard for the 3D evolution of the internet—the metaverse. These luminaries will discuss why they are investing in or adopting USD, and what technological advancements need to come next to see its true potential unlocked.

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• Aaron Luk, Senior Engineering Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

Universal Scene Description (USD) is more than just a file format. This open, powerful, easily extensible world composition framework has APIs for creating, editing, querying, rendering, simulating, and collaboration within virtual worlds. NVIDIA continues to invest in helping evolve USD for workflows beyond media & entertainment to enable the industrial metaverse and the next wave of AIs. See why NVIDIA is "all-in" on USD and our USD development roadmap, and learn about our recent USD projects and initiatives at NVIDIA and with our ecosystem of partners.

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• Damien Fagnou, Director, Software, NVIDIA

We'll show you how to easily extend the Omniverse platform by creating extensions—the building blocks of Omniverse Kit-based apps such as Omniverse Create or View. We'll showcase Kit’s incredible collection of powerful APIs that help developers intuitively build their own tools to optimize and accelerate their workflows.

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• Bhumin Pathak, Senior Product Manager, Omniverse Replicator, NVIDIA

Enterprise developers and AI researchers need large, carefully labeled, high-quality datasets to train highly accurate neural networks for perception AI applications. Academic datasets, While great for benchmarking, academic datasets are very limited in the classes they provide. Acquiring ground-truth data for new labels or tasks is costly, time-consuming, prone to errors, and may not capture the necessary fidelity required to create effective AI solutions. Omniverse Replicator is an open, modular SDK for building custom synthetic datasets and tools. The highly extensible framework is built on a scalable Omniverse platform that enables physically accurate 3D synthetic data generation to accelerate the training and performance of AI perception networks.

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• Renato Gasoto, Robotics & AI Engineer, NVIDIA
• Beau Perschall, Director, Omniverse Sim Data Ops, NVIDIA

The next wave of industries and AI requires us to build physically accurate virtual worlds indistinguishable from reality. Creating virtual worlds is hard, and today's existing universe of 3D assets is inadequate, representing just the visual representation of an object. Whether building digital twins or virtual worlds for training and testing autonomous vehicles or robots, 3D assets require many more technical properties, requiring a need to develop and adopt novel processes, techniques, and tools. NVIDIA is introducing a new class of 3D assets called "SimReady" assets—the building blocks of virtual worlds. SimReady assets are more than just 3D objects—they encompass accurate physical properties, behavior, and connected data streams built on Universal Scene Description (USD). We'll show you how to get started with SimReady USD assets, and present the tools and techniques required to develop and test these assets.

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• Edmar Mendizabal, NVIDIA Omniverse Community Engagement Manager, NVIDIA
• Rev Lebaredian, VP Simulation Technology and Omniverse Engineering, NVIDIA
• Matias Codesal, NVIDIA Omniverse Community Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA
• Frank DeLise, Vice President, Omniverse Product Management, NVIDIA
• Wendy Gram, NVIDIA Omniverse Community Manager, NVIDIA
• Richard Kerris, VP Omniverse Developer Platform, NVIDIA
• Damien Fagnou, Director, Software, NVIDIA

Join us at the NVIDIA Omniverse User Group to get a behind-the-scenes look at the latest releases and ecosystem partners, how we’re supporting our community of artists and developers, and what resources are available for users interested in building custom extensions and applications. We'll also unveil the winners of the #ExtendOmniverse developer contest. The group is open to all creators, designers, developers, and engineers using or interested in using the open platform for real-time virtual collaboration and physically accurate simulation.

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