What is the different between scene and stage

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@siky47 that’s a good question! as another user, i also had to wrap my head around the terminologies when working with OpenUSD. i’ll defer to the mod to address your specific questions. but overall, i find this post from the dev a while back offers a bit more clarity when dealing with terms like World, Scene, and Stage in Isaac Sim which you may find insightful:

Scene Vs Stage Vs World

Hi @dan.sandberg - In Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD), a Stage represents a scene and all the data associated with it, including prims, assets, and layers that logically contribute to the composition of that scene. Many 3D applications use different terminology to refer to a container for objects that compose a scene, such as “world” or “scene”. In NVIDIA Omniverse applications, Stage is a concept borrowed from USD. You’re correct that the Stage represents the loaded USD Scene, i.e.,…