Pixar is one of the companies driving the Alliance for OpenUSD, a graphics standard for the metaverse.
Pixar is one of the companies driving the Alliance for OpenUSD, a graphics standard for the metaverse.
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5 companies form Alliance for OpenUSD for 3D graphics standard

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).

The group that aims to promote the growth and standardization of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) technology, which is the foundation for Nvidia’s Omniverse platform and could one day be a standard for graphics for a practical “metaverse.” The companies are tapping the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation to help with the effort.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.