NVIDIA had a number of announcements at the recent CES 2025 and the OpenUSD team at NVIDIA had a great round up of announcements relevant to 3D aficionados. While my personal interest is more into animation, technologies related to 3D modeling always interest me due to their potential application. For example, can robot animation techniques … More NVIDIA and OpenUSD at CES 2025
Interested in high quality 3D product configurators for your ecommerce site? The Omniverse team livestream today recapped the recent GTC conference, and over half the video was talking about product configurators including web delivery! What is Omniverse? Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything that is happening with just Omniverse, let alone the rest … More 3D Product Rendering in Web Pages with Omniverse Cloud
I sometimes listen in on the Academy Software Foundation (https://www.aswf.io/) sessions. The latest Web OpenUSD online meeting had a presentation by CloudZeta, OpenUSD for 3D Cloud – Content Distribution & Collaboration. 3D assets are large, so having a shared online storage area that 3D creators and consumers can share with web based preview would be … More CloudZeta – GitHub for 3D Assets
Ever wanted to quickly capture ARKit facial blend shapes for a OpenUSD project? There a number of free tools around, but I wanted to share one I have been working on as part of a larger project. The nice thing is there are zero software installs – it runs in a web browser! Does it … More ARKit Blend Shape Capture for OpenUSD
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