Universal Scene Description

these things together.

Anyway, then there is another kind of big alliance, which is called the OpenUSD.

That's only a few years old, like two or three, something along those lines.

The USD stands for Universal Scene Description.

Because obviously, yeah, they had their own versions of all the software, but they can see that people are changing.

So if you can't beat them, join them.

OpenUSD is mainly driven by Pixar now.

Pixar is one of the people.

say,

in the last three weeks or month, we had, so first of all, we have a consortium of tech companies that are launching OpenUSD, their own stablecoin platform.

Then, you know, I don't know if the order's right, BankChain from the community and regional banks, 39 state banking associations saying that because they're going to get squeezed by the crypto companies and the big banks, they need to launch their own stablecoin network.

And then, of course, we have all of the big banks coming together and saying that they're going to launch stablecoin.

Basically, it is a virtual sandbox where gravity exists, where friction on a conveyor belt is calculated in real time, where motors have actual torque limits and where objects collide with mathematically accurate physics.

And the NVIDIA documentation puts a massive emphasis on a standard called SIM-ready assets, which relies on a framework called OpenUSD Universal Scene Description.

How does OpenUSD give these CAD ghosts actual physical substance?

OpenUSD is much more than just a 3D file format.

It is a relational database for reality.

For a 3D asset to be classified as SIM-ready by NVIDIA, it must be injected with layers of invisible data beyond just its shape.

And only after it has completely mastered the physics in the digital world do you take that trained neural network and deploy it into the physical metal robot on the actual factory floor.

The pipeline is absolutely wild.

So real to sim is can we take the simulation this room, capture it precisely enough, and make it look visually correct enough that a robot trained on it will then be better.

And so that is something where we have worked on and delivered right now is that with this new visual technology called Gaussian Splats, we are able to both capture, reconstruct, and package a room into what's called a USDZ file, which is the Gaussian splat itself, a mesh for collisions so that the robot's feet hit the floor or wheels roll in the right place, and have that loadable into a robotic simulator where the current du jour is the Isaac simulator from NVIDIA.

And so now you can go to our website and build a model, push a button, and download it directly into Isaac.

Awesome.