Universal Scene Description (USD)

Jun 11, 2025

Building Photorealistic Digital Twins With Siemens Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer

Modern products often consist of millions of parts and require intricate design and collaboration. The industrial world is facing significant challenges in...
4 MIN READ
May 31, 2024

How to Train an Object Detection Model for Visual Inspection with Synthetic Data

AI is rapidly changing industrial visual inspection. In a factory setting, visual inspection is used for many issues, including detecting defects and missing or...
8 MIN READ
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Apr 11, 2024

New Video Series: OpenUSD for Developers

Universal Scene Description, also called OpenUSD or USD, is an open and extensible framework for creating, editing, querying, rendering, collaborating, and...
3 MIN READ
A shaded scene using OpenPBR materials and Omniverse RTX Renderer.
Mar 11, 2024

Unlock Seamless Material Interchange for Virtual Worlds with OpenUSD, MaterialX, and OpenPBR

Today, NVIDIA, and the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) announced the AOUSD Materials Working Group, an initiative for standardizing the interchange of materials in...
7 MIN READ
Feb 29, 2024

Video Series: Getting Started with Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)

Gain a foundational understanding of USD, the open and extensible framework for creating, editing, querying, rendering, collaborating, and simulating within 3D...
1 MIN READ
Car model shown recorded inside of the Varjo XR-4
Feb 22, 2024

Enhance Immersive Experiences with the New Varjo XR-4 Series Headsets, Powered by NVIDIA

Developers and enterprises can now deploy lifelike virtual and mixed reality experiences with Varjo's latest XR-4 series headsets, which are integrated with...
3 MIN READ
Image of a livingroom with a couch that is partially dissolved into pixels.
Feb 21, 2024

Spotlight: HOMEE AI Delivers AI-Powered Spatial Planning to Your Living Room

HOMEE AI, an NVIDIA Inception member based in Taiwan, has developed an “AI-as-a-service” spatial planning solution to disrupt the $650B global home decor...
7 MIN READ
Jan 17, 2024

Simulating Railroads with OpenUSD

Railroad simulation is important in modern transportation and logistics, providing a virtual testing ground for the intricate interplay of tracks, switches, and...
8 MIN READ
Dec 15, 2023

New Video: Connecting Any Data Source to OpenUSD

In the fourth installment of this series on the superpowers of OpenUSD, learn how any digital content creation tool can be connected to USD. OpenUSD’s data...
1 MIN READ
Nov 03, 2023

Analyze, Visualize, and Optimize Real-World Processes with OpenUSD in FlexSim

For manufacturing and industrial enterprises, efficiency and precision are essential. To streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance productivity,...
6 MIN READ
Oct 29, 2023

How to Train Autonomous Mobile Robots to Detect Warehouse Pallet Jacks Using Synthetic Data

Synthetic data can play a key role when training perception AI models that are deployed on autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). This process is becoming...
10 MIN READ
Sep 20, 2023

New Video: Representing Data with OpenUSD Custom Schemas

Custom schemas in Universal Scene Description, known as OpenUSD or USD, are pivotal for developers seeking to represent and encode sophisticated virtual worlds....
2 MIN READ
Sep 11, 2023

Creating Immersive Events with OpenUSD and Digital Twins

Moment Factory is a global multimedia entertainment studio that combines specializations in video, lighting, architecture, sound, software, and interactivity to...
8 MIN READ
Aug 08, 2023

RTX-Powered Spatial Framework Delivers Full Ray Tracing with USD for XR Pipelines

Developing extended reality (XR) applications can be extremely challenging. Users typically start with a template project and adhere to pre-existing packaging...
6 MIN READ
Aug 08, 2023

Accelerate 3D Workflows with Modular, OpenUSD-Powered Omniverse Release

The latest release of NVIDIA Omniverse delivers an exciting collection of new features based on Omniverse Kit 105, making it easier than ever for developers to...
7 MIN READ
Aug 03, 2023

How to Use 3D Geospatial Data for Immersive Environments with Cesium

This post was updated January 16, 2024. Recent years have witnessed a massive increase in the volume of 3D geospatial data being generated. This data provides...
9 MIN READ