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Khronos joins the ASWF

We may think of Siggraph as a showcase for splashy movie effects, showy content creation apps, video software, and video graphics pioneers—and it is—but off in the side rooms, over drinks and again with coffee, Siggraph is where progress is made. One example is the USD story; originally, Pixar’s common format to enable content exchange, Universal Scene Description, was opened ...

Kathleen Maher

We may think of Siggraph as a showcase for splashy movie effects, showy content creation apps, video software, and video graphics pioneers—and it is—but off in the side rooms, over drinks and again with coffee, Siggraph is where progress is made. One example is the USD story; originally, Pixar’s common format to enable content exchange, Universal Scene Description, was opened up in 2016. As a working format, USD has always had broad support, but the effort to make it “the HTML of the future Web” requires much more work to make it transportable across browsers, translatable across engineering software… well,
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