Producing 3D movies, video games and simulations is a fancy course of, usually involving a number of groups and instruments. At Pixar, pipeline engineers wanted to write down a number of glue code to combine totally different workflows and file codecs, which was an enormous problem, and led them to create the  Common Scene Description, or OpenUSD. OpenUSD implements summary knowledge fashions for producing 3D worlds, and is now an open-source venture.

Making full use of OpenUSD required a software program framework. This motivated NVIDIA to create Omniverse, which is a modular growth platform that permits people and groups to develop OpenUSD-based 3D workflows and functions.