A scene from Pixar's upcoming Inside Out 2.
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Alliance for OpenUSD launches new standards working groups for interoperable 3D

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I think of the Alliance for OpenUSD as a group making standards for the open industrial and enterprise metaverse. And today they’re announcing two new working groups and a collaborative liaison relationship.

The whole aim is to rally the industry around common technical formats for interoperable digital technologies. OpenUSD, based on a 3D file format pioneered at Pixar dubbed Universal Scene Description (USD), will make it easier for objects like a digital dress be formatted correct at all the ecommerce sites.

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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.