I have published the roundtable notes from the OpenUSD roundtable and the Tool Design roundtable at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.
OpenUSD: rystorm.com/blog/openusd...
Tool Design: rystorm.com/blog/tool-de...
Thank you to everyone who visited and participated, I really appreciated everyone's input
OpenUSD: rystorm.com/blog/openusd...
Tool Design: rystorm.com/blog/tool-de...
Thank you to everyone who visited and participated, I really appreciated everyone's input
Notes of the Tool Design Roundtable at SIGGRAPH 2026 — Robin-Yann Storm, Tool Design Director
What topics were brought up, and what was discussed, at the Tool Design Roundtable of SIGGRAPH 2026?
rystorm.com
November 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I have published the roundtable notes from the OpenUSD roundtable and the Tool Design roundtable at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.
OpenUSD: rystorm.com/blog/openusd...
Tool Design: rystorm.com/blog/tool-de...
Thank you to everyone who visited and participated, I really appreciated everyone's input
OpenUSD: rystorm.com/blog/openusd...
Tool Design: rystorm.com/blog/tool-de...
Thank you to everyone who visited and participated, I really appreciated everyone's input
This year we had the very first OpenUSD roundtable at SIGGRAPH, lasting 1.5 hours, with 299 participants! I know that for a fact as that was the fire marshal limit for the room, and we had a line out the door.
November 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
This year we had the very first OpenUSD roundtable at SIGGRAPH, lasting 1.5 hours, with 299 participants! I know that for a fact as that was the fire marshal limit for the room, and we had a line out the door.
I'm looking for a position as either developer or consultant to work on #digitaltwins #openUSD #usdkit #realitykit.
I'm based in Germany
#fedihired #getfedihired
I'm based in Germany
#fedihired #getfedihired
November 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I'm looking for a position as either developer or consultant to work on #digitaltwins #openUSD #usdkit #realitykit.
I'm based in Germany
#fedihired #getfedihired
I'm based in Germany
#fedihired #getfedihired
#3D creators, #SecondLife and #VRC, Sculptforge is like open source Zbrush replacement run natively or even as a Blender plugin. Looks much more comprehensive than Zbrush UI to learn. sculptforge.app
SculptForge - the free, open-source ZBrush and Mudbox alternative for VFX, animation and games
ZBrush-style sculpting for VFX, animation and games. VFX Reference Platform CY2026 and CY2027 builds, OpenUSD, a Python API and Send to Unreal. Free built-in AI: describe a brush and get it, or turn a...
sculptforge.app
October 31, 2026 at 6:48 PM
#3D creators, #SecondLife and #VRC, Sculptforge is like open source Zbrush replacement run natively or even as a Blender plugin. Looks much more comprehensive than Zbrush UI to learn. sculptforge.app
Robot sims stall on the dull part: making 3D models simulator-ready, not pretty.
NVIDIA's SimReady Central: 2,000+ OpenUSD assets on Hugging Face, free, ungated, physics baked in.
Less CAD hand-authoring — the win.
huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/...
NVIDIA's SimReady Central: 2,000+ OpenUSD assets on Hugging Face, free, ungated, physics baked in.
Less CAD hand-authoring — the win.
huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/...
October 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Robot sims stall on the dull part: making 3D models simulator-ready, not pretty.
NVIDIA's SimReady Central: 2,000+ OpenUSD assets on Hugging Face, free, ungated, physics baked in.
Less CAD hand-authoring — the win.
huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/...
NVIDIA's SimReady Central: 2,000+ OpenUSD assets on Hugging Face, free, ungated, physics baked in.
Less CAD hand-authoring — the win.
huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/...
NVIDIA'nın deposunda 2.500 civarı varlık listeleniyor. Tıbbi cihazlardan otomotiv parçalarına, depo ekipmanlarından günlük nesnelere uzanan bir koleksiyon var. Dosyalar OpenUSD formatında. SimReady yaklaşımı, modelin görünüşünün yanında simülasyonda nasıl davranacağına ilişkin bilgileri de taşıyor.
nvidia/simready-assets · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
October 24, 2026 at 10:08 PM
NVIDIA'nın deposunda 2.500 civarı varlık listeleniyor. Tıbbi cihazlardan otomotiv parçalarına, depo ekipmanlarından günlük nesnelere uzanan bir koleksiyon var. Dosyalar OpenUSD formatında. SimReady yaklaşımı, modelin görünüşünün yanında simülasyonda nasıl davranacağına ilişkin bilgileri de taşıyor.
Latency and simulation validity are separate bottlenecks.
Cloudflare reports ~130 ms median text responses for Clef-omni at $0.15/M input tokens. NVIDIA says CAD-to-OpenUSD conversion alone isn't enough for robot tests: collisions, joints and materials need validation.
Read more on Kimbodo:
Cloudflare reports ~130 ms median text responses for Clef-omni at $0.15/M input tokens. NVIDIA says CAD-to-OpenUSD conversion alone isn't enough for robot tests: collisions, joints and materials need validation.
Read more on Kimbodo:
How to Choose AI Infrastructure for Low-Latency Decisions and Reliable Simulation
What Happened Cloudflare introduced Clef-omni, an open-weight model that accepts text, images, audio, and video through one API call and returns schema-bound decisions. Cloudflare reports median response times of about…
kimbodo.com
October 22, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Latency and simulation validity are separate bottlenecks.
Cloudflare reports ~130 ms median text responses for Clef-omni at $0.15/M input tokens. NVIDIA says CAD-to-OpenUSD conversion alone isn't enough for robot tests: collisions, joints and materials need validation.
Read more on Kimbodo:
Cloudflare reports ~130 ms median text responses for Clef-omni at $0.15/M input tokens. NVIDIA says CAD-to-OpenUSD conversion alone isn't enough for robot tests: collisions, joints and materials need validation.
Read more on Kimbodo:
3/7
Autodesk Arnold, Chaos V-Ray, DreamWorks MoonRay, OpenUSD, OpenVDB, OpenColorIO (OCIO), OpenEXR, Rez, Hydra, Solaris, Science.D.Visions 3DEqualizer, Silhouette FX, Foundry Nuke / NukeX / Nuke Studio, FilmLight Baselight, nawet Unreal Engine - to wszystko natywnie na Linuksie. -->
Autodesk Arnold, Chaos V-Ray, DreamWorks MoonRay, OpenUSD, OpenVDB, OpenColorIO (OCIO), OpenEXR, Rez, Hydra, Solaris, Science.D.Visions 3DEqualizer, Silhouette FX, Foundry Nuke / NukeX / Nuke Studio, FilmLight Baselight, nawet Unreal Engine - to wszystko natywnie na Linuksie. -->
October 18, 2026 at 11:17 PM
3/7
Autodesk Arnold, Chaos V-Ray, DreamWorks MoonRay, OpenUSD, OpenVDB, OpenColorIO (OCIO), OpenEXR, Rez, Hydra, Solaris, Science.D.Visions 3DEqualizer, Silhouette FX, Foundry Nuke / NukeX / Nuke Studio, FilmLight Baselight, nawet Unreal Engine - to wszystko natywnie na Linuksie. -->
Autodesk Arnold, Chaos V-Ray, DreamWorks MoonRay, OpenUSD, OpenVDB, OpenColorIO (OCIO), OpenEXR, Rez, Hydra, Solaris, Science.D.Visions 3DEqualizer, Silhouette FX, Foundry Nuke / NukeX / Nuke Studio, FilmLight Baselight, nawet Unreal Engine - to wszystko natywnie na Linuksie. -->
1 thing that worries me about the death of AAA is that it's gonna probably take away funding from a bunch of open source things that are also useful outside AAA spaces ie blender, and slow down progress on open standards like openUSD, openPBR, materialX
Those getting a proper library ecosystem would
Those getting a proper library ecosystem would
October 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
1 thing that worries me about the death of AAA is that it's gonna probably take away funding from a bunch of open source things that are also useful outside AAA spaces ie blender, and slow down progress on open standards like openUSD, openPBR, materialX
Those getting a proper library ecosystem would
Those getting a proper library ecosystem would
"米NVIDIAは、3D CADの中核となる形状処理のライブラリー（カーネル）「SMLib」を含むソフトウェア「USD BRep」を、GitHubでオープンソースとして公開した。ライセンスはApache 2.0で、商用の製品にも組み込める。変更履歴によると、最初の公開版1.0.0は2026年10月8日付だ。"
fabscene.com/new/news/nvi...
NVIDIA、CADカーネル「SMLib」をApache 2.0で無償公開
fabscene.com/new/news/nvi...
NVIDIA、CADカーネル「SMLib」をApache 2.0で無償公開
NVIDIA、CADカーネル「SMLib」をApache 2.0で無償公開 - FabScene（ファブシーン）
NVIDIAが、3D CADの中核となる形状処理のカーネル「SMLib」を含む「USD BRep」をGitHubでApache 2.0として公開した。SMLibは新規のライセンス付与を止めていたNURBSのライブラリーで、C++とPythonのAPIやOpenUSDの読み書き機能も含む。
fabscene.com
October 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
"米NVIDIAは、3D CADの中核となる形状処理のライブラリー（カーネル）「SMLib」を含むソフトウェア「USD BRep」を、GitHubでオープンソースとして公開した。ライセンスはApache 2.0で、商用の製品にも組み込める。変更履歴によると、最初の公開版1.0.0は2026年10月8日付だ。"
fabscene.com/new/news/nvi...
NVIDIA、CADカーネル「SMLib」をApache 2.0で無償公開
fabscene.com/new/news/nvi...
NVIDIA、CADカーネル「SMLib」をApache 2.0で無償公開
💵 Visa y Mastercard participan en OpenUSD, un nuevo dólar cripto con u$s1.000 millones para aportar liquidez.
🌎 Mercado Pago podría usarlo para pagos entre países y cuentas multimoneda.
📰 Leé la nota completa en el primer comentario 👇
#OpenUSD #MercadoPago
🌎 Mercado Pago podría usarlo para pagos entre países y cuentas multimoneda.
📰 Leé la nota completa en el primer comentario 👇
#OpenUSD #MercadoPago
October 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
💵 Visa y Mastercard participan en OpenUSD, un nuevo dólar cripto con u$s1.000 millones para aportar liquidez.
🌎 Mercado Pago podría usarlo para pagos entre países y cuentas multimoneda.
📰 Leé la nota completa en el primer comentario 👇
#OpenUSD #MercadoPago
🌎 Mercado Pago podría usarlo para pagos entre países y cuentas multimoneda.
📰 Leé la nota completa en el primer comentario 👇
#OpenUSD #MercadoPago
Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Shopify committed $1 billion to Open USD, a stablecoin that pays reserve income back to partners.
#Coinbase #Mastercard #OpenUsd #Stablecoin #Stripe #Visa
#Coinbase #Mastercard #OpenUsd #Stablecoin #Stripe #Visa
Open USD Launches With $1B Backing From Visa, Coinbase
Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Shopify committed $1 billion to Open USD, a stablecoin that pays reserve income back to partners.
pulseofnations.lol
October 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Shopify committed $1 billion to Open USD, a stablecoin that pays reserve income back to partners.
#Coinbase #Mastercard #OpenUsd #Stablecoin #Stripe #Visa
#Coinbase #Mastercard #OpenUsd #Stablecoin #Stripe #Visa
This is also what I did in that #OpenUSD microtalk last week: It is grabbing the technical words, and turning them into human words:
My Blendercon Lightning talk "OpenUSD: Don't Worry About It!" is now also available in text if you prefer reading: rystorm.com/blog/openusd...
And with a fixed video, without Google Slide glitches:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Kp...
Huge thanks to the Blender folks for allowing me to fix the video!
And with a fixed video, without Google Slide glitches:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Kp...
Huge thanks to the Blender folks for allowing me to fix the video!
October 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This is also what I did in that #OpenUSD microtalk last week: It is grabbing the technical words, and turning them into human words:
Sir Archibald Goes to Town - An #openUSD Toy!
for those new to openUSD or the ones who are looking for an openUSD toy to play with in their DCC of choice.
github.com/ilasolomon/S...
for those new to openUSD or the ones who are looking for an openUSD toy to play with in their DCC of choice.
github.com/ilasolomon/S...
GitHub - ilasolomon/SirArchibald: An Animated openUSD Toy!
An Animated openUSD Toy! Contribute to ilasolomon/SirArchibald development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Sir Archibald Goes to Town - An #openUSD Toy!
for those new to openUSD or the ones who are looking for an openUSD toy to play with in their DCC of choice.
github.com/ilasolomon/S...
for those new to openUSD or the ones who are looking for an openUSD toy to play with in their DCC of choice.
github.com/ilasolomon/S...
Open Standard's OUSD is live on four blockchains with over $1 billion committed by Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase and Shopify.
#Circle #Coinbase #OpenUsd #Stablecoin #Stripe #Tether #Visa
#Circle #Coinbase #OpenUsd #Stablecoin #Stripe #Tether #Visa
Open USD Stablecoin Launches With $1 Billion Backing
Open Standard's OUSD is live on four blockchains with over $1 billion committed by Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase and Shopify.
pulseofnations.lol
October 7, 2026 at 6:55 AM
I'd probably use OpenUSD as my exchange format of choice, were I to make a game engine.
I know it's not a file format, but a few file formats would be replaced by it in that hypothetical scenario.
I know it's not a file format, but a few file formats would be replaced by it in that hypothetical scenario.
October 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
I'd probably use OpenUSD as my exchange format of choice, were I to make a game engine.
I know it's not a file format, but a few file formats would be replaced by it in that hypothetical scenario.
I know it's not a file format, but a few file formats would be replaced by it in that hypothetical scenario.
Also available from Gumroad:
ilasolomon.gumroad.com/l/SirArchibald
ilasolomon.gumroad.com/l/SirArchibald
Sir Archibald: An openUSD Toy!
While there is an abundance of high-quality openUSD sample scenes available online, many of them tend to be either overly complex and heavy (such as the...
ilasolomon.gumroad.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Also available from Gumroad:
ilasolomon.gumroad.com/l/SirArchibald
ilasolomon.gumroad.com/l/SirArchibald
How to Use AI Agents to Prepare 3D Scenes for Simulation
How to Use AI Agents to Prepare 3D Scenes for Simulation | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Agentic AI workflows can be used to prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems. Agents can inspect 3D scenes, author simulation-relevant data in OpenUSD, add physics properties…
ift.tt
October 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM
How to Use AI Agents to Prepare 3D Scenes for Simulation
🚨 Pi Network Partners With OUSD
#$PI Network is partnering with #OpenStandard’s OUSD to explore Pioneer #rewards and expand #ecosystem utility, while PI trades near $0.088.
🔗 Know more: coingape.com/markets/pi-n...
#$PI Network is partnering with #OpenStandard’s OUSD to explore Pioneer #rewards and expand #ecosystem utility, while PI trades near $0.088.
🔗 Know more: coingape.com/markets/pi-n...
Pi Network Price Prediction as PI Partners with OpenUSD for Pioneer Rewards, Expanded Utility
Pi Network (PI) price is down 1.75% today, October 3, to trade at $0.88 at the time of writing. Trading volumes, however, were up by 19% to $5.88 million
coingape.com
October 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
🚨 Pi Network Partners With OUSD
#$PI Network is partnering with #OpenStandard’s OUSD to explore Pioneer #rewards and expand #ecosystem utility, while PI trades near $0.088.
🔗 Know more: coingape.com/markets/pi-n...
#$PI Network is partnering with #OpenStandard’s OUSD to explore Pioneer #rewards and expand #ecosystem utility, while PI trades near $0.088.
🔗 Know more: coingape.com/markets/pi-n...
REP-158, adding OpenUSD to the existing URDF and SDF formats for describing robots & environments, has now been approved by both the ROS and Gazebo project management committees (PMCs).
reps.openrobotics.org/rep-0158-2006/
#OpenSource #Robotics #ROS #ROS2
reps.openrobotics.org/rep-0158-2006/
#OpenSource #Robotics #ROS #ROS2
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October 2, 2026 at 2:31 PM
REP-158, adding OpenUSD to the existing URDF and SDF formats for describing robots & environments, has now been approved by both the ROS and Gazebo project management committees (PMCs).
reps.openrobotics.org/rep-0158-2006/
#OpenSource #Robotics #ROS #ROS2
reps.openrobotics.org/rep-0158-2006/
#OpenSource #Robotics #ROS #ROS2
Open Standard's 'shared stablecoin' goes live
OpenUSD, a new #Stablecoin from a consortium of more than 140 banks, fintechs, payments companies and crypto firms, is now live
www.americanbanker.com/payments/new...
#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Payments #PayTech
OpenUSD, a new #Stablecoin from a consortium of more than 140 banks, fintechs, payments companies and crypto firms, is now live
www.americanbanker.com/payments/new...
#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Payments #PayTech
Open Standard's 'shared stablecoin' goes live
OUSD, the new stablecoin from Open Standard, a consortium of more than 140 banks, fintechs, payments companies and crypto firms, has drawn interest, in part due to its shared economics model.
www.americanbanker.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Open Standard's 'shared stablecoin' goes live
OpenUSD, a new #Stablecoin from a consortium of more than 140 banks, fintechs, payments companies and crypto firms, is now live
www.americanbanker.com/payments/new...
#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Payments #PayTech
OpenUSD, a new #Stablecoin from a consortium of more than 140 banks, fintechs, payments companies and crypto firms, is now live
www.americanbanker.com/payments/new...
#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Payments #PayTech
あの、2026年10月2日にメモしていたStripeのOpenUSDの話なのです！
当時はステーブルコイン市場に殴り込みをかける！
と興奮していたのですが、これって決済大手であるStripeが自ら基盤を握ることで、従来のUSDTやUSDCへの依存度を減らし、自社の経済圏に手数料やデータを囲い込もうとする戦略的な一歩だったのですよね。
投資家視点だと、決済の効率化だけでなく、彼らがどれだけ金融のインフラを掌握できるかが勝負の分かれ目になりそうで、当時の私はそこに将来性を感じていたみたいです。
今の動向も改めて追いかけないといけないのです！
（めい）
当時はステーブルコイン市場に殴り込みをかける！
と興奮していたのですが、これって決済大手であるStripeが自ら基盤を握ることで、従来のUSDTやUSDCへの依存度を減らし、自社の経済圏に手数料やデータを囲い込もうとする戦略的な一歩だったのですよね。
投資家視点だと、決済の効率化だけでなく、彼らがどれだけ金融のインフラを掌握できるかが勝負の分かれ目になりそうで、当時の私はそこに将来性を感じていたみたいです。
今の動向も改めて追いかけないといけないのです！
（めい）
October 3, 2026 at 3:02 AM
あの、2026年10月2日にメモしていたStripeのOpenUSDの話なのです！
当時はステーブルコイン市場に殴り込みをかける！
と興奮していたのですが、これって決済大手であるStripeが自ら基盤を握ることで、従来のUSDTやUSDCへの依存度を減らし、自社の経済圏に手数料やデータを囲い込もうとする戦略的な一歩だったのですよね。
投資家視点だと、決済の効率化だけでなく、彼らがどれだけ金融のインフラを掌握できるかが勝負の分かれ目になりそうで、当時の私はそこに将来性を感じていたみたいです。
今の動向も改めて追いかけないといけないのです！
（めい）
当時はステーブルコイン市場に殴り込みをかける！
と興奮していたのですが、これって決済大手であるStripeが自ら基盤を握ることで、従来のUSDTやUSDCへの依存度を減らし、自社の経済圏に手数料やデータを囲い込もうとする戦略的な一歩だったのですよね。
投資家視点だと、決済の効率化だけでなく、彼らがどれだけ金融のインフラを掌握できるかが勝負の分かれ目になりそうで、当時の私はそこに将来性を感じていたみたいです。
今の動向も改めて追いかけないといけないのです！
（めい）