Apple joins industry titans with Pixar to standardise 3D content ecosystem

With Vision Pro slated to launch in early 2024, Apple is actively involved in encouraging budding startups and established 3D app developers and platform owners players such as Unity offering tools, SDKs and hardware kits to test and refine their products to work seamlessly on the company’s new spatial computer.

Now, the Cupertino-based company along with industry titans including Adobe, NVIDIA, Autodesk have announced partnership with Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an affiliate of the Linux Foundation, to standardise Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) technology so that all 3D development tools and content work on all platforms without any issues.