Apple is teaming up with Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and Nvidia to unlock Vision Pro’s vast 3D potential

Industry giants Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA have teamed up with the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an affiliate of the Linux Foundation, to announce the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).

The aim of alliance is to promote the standardisation, development, and evolution of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) technology. USD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology developed by Pixar Animation Studios that enables robust interchange between digital content creation tools with its expanding set of schemas, covering domains like geometry, shading, lighting, and physics.