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Is USD the key to the Metaverse? Marc Petit – Unreal Engine / Epic Games
Interview with Marc Petit, VP, Unreal Engine Ecosystem, Epic Games at SIGGRAPH 2022.
Interview with Marc Petit, VP, Unreal Engine Ecosystem, Epic Games at SIGGRAPH 2022.
He shared his vision of the progress made by Unreal Engine since 2017 and spoke about Epic Games at SIGGRAPH.
He then discussed the metaverse: What is it, what are the advantages of the metaverse? Why is USD such a buzzword at SIGGRAPH 2022, and what are the main challenges towards building the metaverse?
The Universal Scene Description (USD) interchange format is an open-source format developed by Pixar to address the need to robustly and scalably interchange and augment arbitrary 3D scenes that may be composed of many elemental assets.
