Subj : Apple sees Vision Pro on Pixar platform
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Aug 02 2023 10:15:04

Apple sees Vision Pro on Pixar platform

Date:
Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:52:08 +0000

Description:
Apple, Adobe, Nvidia, and Pixar among those looking to standardize 3D design 
tools.

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3D content production is set to get a lot more accessible if a group of top 
tech firms gets its way. 

Apple, Adobe, Nvidia, and Autodesk have joined forces with animation studio 
Pixar and Linux Foundation affiliate Joint Development Foundation in a bid to 
promote the standardization of 3D tools and data using Pixars Open Universal 
Scene Description platform. 

According to Apple, the Alliance of OpenUSD will enable developers and 
content creators to describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects 
and build an ever-widening range of 3D-enabled products and services. What is 
OpenUSD? 

Open Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), developed by Pixar, is an 
open-source interchange package. It effectively lets users work on scenes 
composed of various elements in the graphics pipeline, from 3D modeling to 
lighting and shading. Read more 

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But while its uses are most readily seen in the studios own animated output, 
the alliance sees far greater uses for the platform - notably Apple, who 
recently unveiled its AR/VR headset Vision Pro . 

OpenUSD will help accelerate the next generation of AR experiences, from 
artistic creation to content delivery, and produce an ever-widening array of 
spatial computing applications. It is an essential technology for the 
groundbreaking visionOS platform, as well as the new Reality Composer Pro 
developer tool. We look forward to fostering its growth into a broadly 
adopted standard, said Mike Rockwell, Apples vice president of the Vision 
Products Group. 

Autodesks Gordon Bradley was similarly enthused by the prospect of making USD 
the international standard. Whether youre building CG worlds or digital twins 
or looking ahead to the 3D web, content creators need a cohesive way to 
collaborate and share data across tools, services, and platforms, he said. 

Companies including Unity, Epic Games, Ikea, and Unity Wt Tools have also 
commented favorably on the founding of the Alliance over on the Linux 
Foundation website . 

Glaringly absent, however, from Apple's Alliance announcement was the word 
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Link to news story:
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