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Alliance for OpenUSD Announces Advancements in OpenUSD, Core Specification, and Industry Collaboration

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New Members and Interest Groups Expand Industry Contribution to the Alliance, New OpenUSD Release and Core Specification Development Simplifies OpenUSD Adoption and Implementation

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) today announced DigitalFish, Hunan Mango Innocreative Technology, Microsoft Corp., Shutterstock, Sony Group, and Sunvega Information Technology as new members, the launch of new Interest Groups, a new release of OpenUSD, and momentum in core specification definition.

New OpenUSD Release and Core Specification Development Simplifies OpenUSD Adoption and Implementation.

Formed in 2023, AOUSD is an organization dedicated to fostering the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), an extensible framework for describing, composing, simulating, and collaboratively navigating and constructing 3D scenes.

New Members

AOUSD is proud to welcome six new general members whose participation will expand the use, evolution, and expansion of OpenUSD applications across industries such as Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Industrial Manufacturing, and Media and Entertainment. View Quotes from New Members.

Learn more about becoming a member of AOUSD today.

New Interest Groups Drive Innovation and Inclusivity

AOUSD also announced a new level of Alliance collaboration and participation as contributors in newly formed Interest Groups. Interest Groups provide industry experts the ability to incubate new ideas that can drive OpenUSD development across industries and applications. Each Interest Group operates under a specific charter that outlines clear scopes and objectives, ultimately providing recommendations to official AOUSD Working Groups, which drive normative specifications.

The first of these Interest Groups are:

Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO)Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI)Emerging Geometry

“The formation of these Interest Groups represents a significant step forward in our mission to expand the reach and capabilities of OpenUSD,” said Steve May, Chairperson at AOUSD. “By focusing on crucial areas such as diversity and inclusion, emerging geometries, and industry-specific applications, we’re ensuring that OpenUSD continues to evolve as a versatile and inclusive standard for 3D content creation and interchange.”

AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations) Interest Group

The AECO Interest Group will examine the potential for USD in the AECO sector and provide recommendations on its adoption. Chaired by Angel Velez of Autodesk and Sean Snyders of Trimble, the group will assess the role of USD in AECO and its relationship with existing standards such as IFC.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Interest Group

The DEI Interest Group is committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across AOUSD’s organization and its activities. Chaired by Lori Smallwood of Apple, the group will explore concrete actions AOUSD can take to accomplish these goals, leveraging OpenUSD’s potential.

Emerging Geometry Interest Group

The Emerging Geometry Interest Group will focus on learning and sharing experiences from the latest graphics research in 3D asset representation — such as Gaussian splats or Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). Chaired by Raymond Fei of Adobe and Gavriel State, senior director of system software at NVIDIA, the group’s initial focus will be on assets generated via neural reconstruction and Signed Distance Field primitives and operators.

New Release of OpenUSD

OpenUSD v24.08 is now available, bringing more flexibility and accessibility to OpenUSD developers and workflows. This release is a result of major collaboration across the OpenUSD ecosystem including the liaison agreements between AOUSD, ASWF, and Khronos.

A new OpenUSD Validation Framework is now available, making it easier for content owners to identify and address issues in their OpenUSD scenes.

The new release also aligns with the VFX Reference Platform to support OneTBB for more recent developments in data parallelism, and Python 3.12 for newer scripting features.

OpenUSD also now supports a Vulkan-backed Storm renderer, improving performance across platforms by leveraging modern graphics APIs.

Advancing OpenUSD Core Specification

The Alliance for OpenUSD Core Specification Working Group made major progress since its inception in 2023. The Working Group produced drafts now available for AOUSD members to review, including drafts for attribute data types, document data model, and core file formats (USDA, USDC, USDZ). The group continues to drive development of sample implementations for USDA and USDC parsers and compliance testing, editorial activities including a conceptual glossary, and composition and stage population specifications. 

See AOUSD at SIGGRAPH

Those attending SIGGRAPH 2024 are invited to explore the numerous OpenUSD-related sessions and network with AOUSD members. This year, several AOUSD members, including Adobe, Ansys, Apple, Autodesk, Cesium, Epic Games, Meta, NVIDIA, Pixar, SideFX, Sony Group, and WPP, will be presenting on a wide range of topics related to AOUSD, OpenUSD, and its applications in the industry.

Connect with AOUSD members and the broader OpenUSD community at the Alliance for OpenUSD and Academy Software Foundation USD Working Group and the OpenUSD Developer Meetup.

For a detailed list of highlighted sessions and more information about AOUSD’s presence at SIGGRAPH 2024, please visit our blog here.

About the Alliance for OpenUSD

The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) is an open organization dedicated to fostering the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD to enable developers and content creators to more easily describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects. The Alliance brings together a diverse and inclusive community to provide an open forum for collaborative development and discussion around the standardization, development, and growth of OpenUSD.

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Huawei Peer-Recognized as a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure

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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On September 24, 2024, Huawei announced that it has been peer-recognized a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice in the Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure thanks to its Xinghe Intelligent Campus offerings. This marks the fifth year in a row that Huawei has received this distinction. Notably, Huawei receives Customers’ Choice distinctions in four of the six customer segments: Midsize Enterprise (50M1B USD); Public Sector, Government and Education; Asia/Pacific; and Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

As of June 30, 2024, customers across diverse sectors — including manufacturing, IT services, education, and telecommunication — have reviewed Huawei’s complete Xinghe Intelligent Campus offerings on the Gartner Peer Insights platform. We believe their impressive feedback showed global recognition of Huawei from the industry influence, deployment scales, and mature commercial use perspectives.

“We’re thrilled to be named a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure again,” said Shawn Zhao, President of Huawei’s Campus Network Domain. “Recently, Huawei launched the newly upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Campus that takes wireless, application, and O&M experience to new levels with AI technologies, ultimately accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises.”

Looking ahead, Huawei will further innovate Xinghe Intelligent Campus offerings from wireless, application, and O&M experience upgrade perspectives, helping all industries stride to the future of experience-centric intelligent campus networks.

For more about Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice, visit: https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/enterprise-wired-wireless-lan-access-infrastructure 

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Gartner, Peer Insights, Magic Quadrant and Customers’ Choice badge are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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“MLOVE” Rangers Speakers to be unveiled at Global Sources Consumer Electronics Show 2024.10

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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — MLOVE, announces its participation in the Global Sources Consumer Electronics Show during October 11 to 14, 2024 in Hong Kong. We look very much forward to offering 7 original and pioneering Busking Speakers from MLOVE Rangers Series.

To further expand MLOVE on the global market and have more face-to-face communications with our customers and agents, we are scheduled to attend the Global Sources Consumer Electronics Show.

Come and Join Us at:
Booth No.: Hall1, 1D26
Time: October 11 – 14, 2024
Address: AsiaWorld-Expo • Hong Kong

About Global Sources Consumer Electronics Show

Global Sources Consumer Electronics show, the world’s largest export-centered electronics sourcing trade show, features over 3,100 booths offering a whole host of industry innovations, which cover 9 major product categories including smart wearables, TWS, AR/VR, energy storage, solar energy, and charging stations — all in high demand for the world’s buyers. Aside from their diversity, what these products share in common are strong branding, intelligence, and innovative design.

Introducing 7 New Masterpieces: Rangers Busking Speakers

MLOVE S3 Pro, S1, S5 ,D5, D4, D6, D8 Pro

Three Main Functions In One Speaker  

Playing Music Speaker
Sound is the soul of the speaker. We are committed to shaping the sound characteristics of our own style with deep and dynamic bass, clean and clear vocal, stable treble, bass, vocal, and treble balance so that every note is full of our persistence and passion, bringing users an unprecedented auditory feast.

Karaoke Speaker
Support 2 wireless UHF microphones,
high quality metal housing and cardioid voice collection Microphone
Multi channels timbre adjustment independently, customized your tone

Musical Instrument Amplifier
This function specially developed for musical instrument lovers
Portable size, you can make a street busk with your friends easily
Different musical instruments assigns independent impedance matching tap
Maximizes the musical instrument’s sound

Other Special Features:
100+ Connections Together
Reverse Charging other devices
Wireless/Wired Recording
OTG playing and charging
Wireless/Wired Live Streaming

About MLOVE

Established in 2008, the MLOVE factory is a national high-tech enterprise that integrates ID design, research and development, production, and sales and after-sales service. It is also a specialized and innovative enterprise in the Guangdong Province. MLOVE factory has a modern independent industrial park of 30,000 square meters, strategically cooperated with SMT and injection molding suppliers.

Currently, MLOVE product line includes Rangers Karaoke and musical instrument speaker series, retro home speaker series, and portable outdoor speaker series.

We will continue to pursue excellence and provide customers with higher quality products and services.

Thank you for your attention. We look forward to establishing a long-term and stable cooperative partnership with customers all over the world.

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Good Media: Two Guinness World Records Set! Shenzhen’s stunning drone show kicks off National Day celebrations

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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On the evening of September 26, Shenzhen hosted a spectacular drone show themed “City of Sky, Maybe Shenzhen” above Shenzhen Bay Park. A total of 10,197 drones took to the sky simultaneously, setting two Guinness World Records: “The most multirotor/drones airborne simultaneously from a single computer (outdoors)” and “The largest aerial image formed by multirotors/drones”.

The drone light show was a breathtaking spectacle. A vast array of drones came together to form a stunning starry sky, making the audience feel as though they were floating in an endless universe. What truly amazed the crowd was the sight of a floating “Sky City” materializing in midair, intertwined with iconic Shenzhen elements like the city’s landmarks, light shows, and scenes of Wing Chun, all symbolizing the limitless future of Shenzhen. Following this, dazzling “cyber fireworks” lit up the night, painting a vibrant picture of Shenzhen as a “City of Miracles, City of Innovation, City of Future”. 

The drones’ kaleidoscopic display in the night sky was not just a technological and visual feast but also a vivid demonstration of Shenzhen’s limitless potential as a “Sky City” for global visitors. 

It is worth noting that this drone show was just the beginning. During the National Day Holiday, Shenzhen will continue the drone performances for seven consecutive days. Daily shows will feature 10,000 drones across five districts in a relay format. 

To welcome global tourists to experience low-altitude tourism, starting from September 23, Shenzhen has been offering special holiday packages for seven consecutive days. This includes 10,000 low-altitude flight experience vouchers, allowing visitors to enjoy helicopter rides and take in the stunning urban landscapes, mountains, and coastal vistas of Shenzhen from above. 

In addition, Shenzhen will host over 300 highlight cultural and tourism activities. It will also offer more than 40,000 discounted attraction tickets, 2,000 free admission tickets, and 1,000 Shenzhen Airlines upgrade vouchers, inviting tourists from around the world to join in this grand autumn tourism celebration.

 

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