May 26, 2021

Video Conference Link

Attendance

Minutes

• Action item follow-up (0:05-)

• Sub-working group updates

  • USD Camera (Michael M.)

    • having some great conversations about camera/lens metadata and workflows.

    • building a (simple) VFX Workflows diagram for discussion for how metadata flows in the existing pipelines.

    • hopefully will have something for the sub-working group soonish.

  • USD Web Visualization (Roman Z./Phil S.)

    • continued work on server-side bindings for USD stage manipulation.

    • Unity binding SWIG interface files for USD are publicly available as a starting point.

• USD adoption round-table (deferred to a future session due to outages)

• Call for additional topics

  • Jupyter Notebook/Headless DCC integration (JT)
    
    

    • actively working on getting this working

    • will bring a demo as soon as it is ready

  • google/usd_from_gltf

    • Having some issues with this toolset from Google (https://github.com/google/usd_from_gltf)

    • Might have better luck with Apple ARKit tools, available here: https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/tools/

      • Scroll down to the bottom of the page, see "USDZ Tools"

      • Download requires an Apple developer account.

• Closing/Action Items

  • Next session (June 9th) is cancelled

  • USD adoption round-table is rescheduled to June 23rd

    • Please prepare a slide with your studio/vendor experience with adopting USD (see linked agenda for details).