Pixar to open source Universal Scene Description system

Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (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.

USD is being tested by a number of studios and developers, and Pixar intends to release it as an open source project by Northern Hemisphere’s summer 2016. Read the press release and find out more on Pixar’s website.