Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/new-video-series-what-developers-need-to-know-about-universal-scene-description/
Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is an open and extensible framework for creating, editing, querying, rendering, collaborating, and simulating within 3D worlds. Invented by Pixar Animation Studios, USD is much more than a file format. It is an ecosystem and interchange paradigm that models, labels, classifies, and combines a wide range of data sources into a…