Future Topics

This is a place to add future topics of interest for upcoming USD working group meetings. Please mark any topics you add with your name, and give a brief set of bullets to guide the discussion when it comes up. These are not ordered at all – the group can choose to pull any from this list, based on overall interest and immediacy of the topics.

• USD in research (Nick P.)

  • Not many research papers that use USD

  • Could be due to difficulties building USD

    • Address common tripping points

    • Overlap with CI working group plans for producing binary builds?

    • NVidia provides binary downloads

• USD versioning and compatibility (Gordon B.)

  • Range of products, with range of USD versions

  • Having multiple USD versions in memory is not viable

  • Are there simple things we can suggest that would make it easier?

    • e.g. no tbb in headers?

• Path to building viewports on Hydra

  • Experiences from Autodesk in building a Hydra-based viewport

  • Experiences from others doing the same?