Nvidia Explains Why It Believes USD Is the “HTML of the Metaverse”

This is just a repost of https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/universal-scene-descriptio....

USD has some major pain-points, the most important one being that unlike HTML, it has absolutely no specification for the file format. Everyone using it would have to go through the single USD library. See https://rystorm.com/blog/i-would-like-usd-to-succeed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32591840) for a more balanced view.

“Much like HTML forms a description of a webpage—which can be hosted anywhere on the internet—and is retrieved and rendered locally by a web browser, USD is a protocol for describing complex virtual scenes which can be retrieved and rendered to varying degrees depending upon local hardware capabilities. With a ‘USD browser’ of sorts, Nvidia is suggesting that USD could be the common method by which virtual spaces are defined in a way that’s easy for anyone to decipher and render.“

Interesting approach, but I think a good XR experience is much more “declaration” of a scene, interactions will be important. I suspect the end result will need this USD with some kind of semantic graph to process relations.