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SIGGRAPH 2024
July 30, 2024 @ 10:30 - 13:30 PDT
SIGGRAPH is the premier conference & exhibition on computer graphics & interactive techniques.
Metaverse Standards Forum: Advancements on USD and glTF Interoperability and Discussion on the 3D Web Landscape
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Room 708-710
Presentations, panels, and discussions on the activities from the Metaverse Standards Forum. The session will include sub-sessions:
11:30-2:30 pm – State of 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF. Updates on alignment of PBR materials, physics extensions, roundtripping between glTF and USD, interactivity, animation, FBX, and new geometric representations.
- Intro to the Metaverse Standards Forum, Khronos, and AOUSD
- Neil Trevett, VP of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, President at Metaverse Standards Forum, President at Khronos
- Guy Martin, Director of Open Source & Standards at NVIDIA, Founding Board Member & Steering Committee Vice Chair at AOUSD
- 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF Working Group Update
- Patrick Cozzi, Working Group Co-Chair and CEO at Cesium
- PBR Material Interoperability – MaterialX, OpenPBR, USD, and glTF
- Henrik Edström, Distinguished Architect, Graphics at Autodesk
- glTF and USD Interoperability Using Open-Source Extensions
- Michael Min, Adobe
- USD and glTF for Geospatial and Beyond
- Janine Liu, 3D Software Developer at Cesium
1:00-1:30 – 3D Web Interoperability Roadmap and Use Cases and progress on X3D and glTF interoperability.
- Nicholas F. Polys, PhD, Director of Visual Computing, Virginia Tech, USA
- Johannes Behr, Dr.-Ing, Co-Founder & CPO, Threedy GmbH, Germany
1:30-2:30 State of the Union Panel on the Next Iteration of 3D Web. Industry experts will answer questions about the evolving landscape of real-time, interactive content creation.
- Neil Trevett, VP of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, President at Metaverse Standards Forum, President at Khronos
- Patrick Cozzi, Working Group Co-Chair and CEO at Cesium
- Steven Gay, Mode Maison CEO
- Nicholas F. Polys, PhD, Director of Visual Computing, Virginia Tech, USA
- Brandon Jones, WebGPU/WebXR/WebGL Developer at Google
- Sean Mann, CEO at RP1
