Pixar releases Universal Scene Description beta

Pixar has released a beta version of its Universal Scene Description (USD) open source project. USD is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading and streaming time-sampled scene descriptions for interchange between graphics applications. The system facilitates the creation of scalable collaborative pipelines and aims to bring standardization and efficient exchange of scenes among 3D applications, while trying to preserve file referencing and non-destructive editing capabilities. More on Pixar’s website.