NVIDIA today announced a broad initiative to evolve Universal Scene
Description (USD), the open-source and extensible language of 3D
worlds, to become a foundation of the open metaverse and 3D
internet.
Working together with USD’s inventor, Pixar, as well as Adobe,
Autodesk, Siemens and a host of other leading companies, NVIDIA
will pursue a multi-year roadmap to expand USD’s capabilities
beyond visual effects — enabling it to better support industrial
metaverse applications in architecture, engineering, manufacturing,
scientific computing, robotics and industrial digital twins.
At its SIGGRAPH special address, the company shared forthcoming
updates to evolve USD. These include international character
support, which will allow users from all countries and languages to
participate in USD. Support for geospatial coordinates will enable
city-scale and planetary-scale digital twins. And real-time
streaming of IoT data will enable the development of digital twins
that are synchronized to the physical world.
To accelerate USD development and adoption, the company also
announced development of an open USD Compatibility Testing and
Certification Suite that developers can freely use to test their
USD builds and certify that they produce an expected result.
“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,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of
Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA. “Working with our
community of partners, we’re investing in USD so that it can serve
as the foundation for architecture, manufacturing, robotics,
engineering and many more domains.”
Open-Source USD Resources and Leaders Supporting
USDNVIDIA is releasing a collection of free resources to
speed USD adoption, including thousands of USD assets purpose-built
to open up virtual-world building for users without 3D expertise.
The company is also providing hundreds of on-demand tutorials,
documentation and developer tools to help spread USD education.
“USD is a cornerstone of Pixar’s pipeline, and it’s seeing
rapidly growing momentum as an open-source framework across not
only VFX and animation, but now industrial, design and scientific
applications,” said Steve May, chief technology officer at Pixar
Animation Studios. “NVIDIA’s contributions to help evolve USD as
the open foundation of fully interoperable 3D platforms will be a
great benefit across industries.”
NVIDIA also announced investment in building USD plugins from
popular 3D software ecosystems to NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform for
connecting and creating virtual worlds based on Universal Scene
Description. New beta releases include PTC Creo and SideFX Houdini,
with Autodesk Alias and Autodesk Civil3D, Siemens Xcelerator and
more in development.
“Siemens and NVIDIA are coming together to enable the industrial
metaverse where the future of design, engineering and collaboration
will occur,” said Dirk Didascalou, chief technology officer of
Siemens Digital Industries. “We are excited to support USD in the
Siemens Xcelerator platform and plan to collaborate with NVIDIA on
the next generation of the format.”
At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA is also bringing together hundreds of
engineering and product leads across the USD ecosystem into working
councils to help align on USD development priorities and get
feedback on where NVIDIA can centralize development efforts. Among
the many companies contributing to and supporting USD are Adobe,
Autodesk, Pixar and Siemens.
“Autodesk has been closely involved in the development of USD
from its early inception as a means of standardizing the exchange
of 3D data in animation and visual effects workflows,” said Raji
Arasu, executive vice president and chief technology officer at
Autodesk. “We have long understood the importance of 3D
interoperability and have already begun extending USD’s
applications beyond media and entertainment to design, engineering
and industrial applications. We are excited by the momentum behind
USD from partners like NVIDIA, which we believe will help better
realize the concept of the metaverse and all the workflows it
unlocks for our customers.”
Innovators in media, gaming, robotics, industrial automation,
retail and grocery are already adopting USD as their metaverse
language of choice, including Kroger and Volvo Cars.
“The promise of USD is immense. At Volvo, we immediately
understood the value of the open, extensible, interoperable 3D
scene description for our metaverse projects. Being able to
maintain assets as a single source of truth and bring them from
virtual world to virtual world will be seamless in 3D internet
consumer applications,” said Mattias Wikenmalm, senior expert of
visualization at Volvo Cars.
Learn more about NVIDIA’s USD resources.
About NVIDIASince its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The
company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC
gaming market, redefined computer graphics and ignited the era of
modern AI. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with
data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. More
information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
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Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: the multi-year roadmap to expand
USD’s capabilities beyond visual effects; our collaborations with
third parties; the impact of evolving USD; international character
support allowing users from all countries and languages to
participate in USD; support for geospatial coordinates enabling
city-scale and planetary-scale digital twins; real-time streaming
of IoT data enabling the development of digital twins that are
synchronized to the physical world; the rapidly growing momentum of
USD as an open-source framework across VFX, animation, industrial,
design and scientific applications; the benefits, performance and
impact of our products and technologies, including Omniverse; the
future of design, engineering and collaboration occurring in the
industrial metaverse; and the promise of USD are forward-looking
statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could
cause results to be materially different than expectations.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on
third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our
products; the impact of technological development and competition;
development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our
existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our
products or our partners’ products; design, manufacturing or
software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands;
changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of
performance of our products or technologies when integrated into
systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the
most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual
report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of
reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and
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