Why Apple bet on Pixar tech to make the metaverse work
Image: Disney / Pixar In June, Apple finally revealed its long-rumored Vision Pro headset, which lets users see immersive 3D worlds on an extremely premium device. There's just one problem: someone needs to build those worlds, and building them requires a lot of work.
But that's not only going to be on Apple; the company's also looking to developers to make great apps for the headset. So to help make it easier to build that 3D content, Apple has teamed up with a bunch of big companies working in 3D tech to announce an alliance that could change the way 3D projects are made.
The Alliance for OpenUSD - a group formed by Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and Nvidia - aims to standardize and develop a technology called Universal Scene Description (USD) that was...