Name: A Reference Renderer for OpenUSD Interoperability - Anders Langlands, NVIDIA
Start: 2026-07-19T16:25:00-0700
End: 2026-07-19T16:35:00-0700

July 19| Los Angeles, California
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A Reference Renderer for OpenUSD Interoperability - Anders Langlands, NVIDIA

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:25pm - 4:35pm PDT

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In order to achieve the dream of reliable, consistent results in lighting and materials across OpenUSD applications, we need a reference implementation and compliance test suite for the various emerging standards across such projects as UsdLux and MaterialX for developers and users to refer to.

This talk describes an open-source, cross-platform, reference path tracer implemented as an extension to the OpenUSD hdEmbree delegate. Developed by engineers at NVIDIA, this path tracer builds on the rich ecosystem of open-source foundations such as MaterialX and OpenQMC to provide a framework for the community to share knowledge and development of rendering standards that will enable seamless rendering interoperability.

Presenters

Anders Langlands

Director, Omniverse Rendering, NVIDIA

Anders is a twenty-year visual effects veteran, where he served as an artist, developer and creative supervisor, garnering three Academy Award nominations.

Today, as product manager for Rendering in NVIDIA Omniverse, he is focused on physically accurate simulation of all kinds of sensors at scale to build a platform for Physical AI using OpenUSD... Read More →

Sunday July 19, 2026 4:25pm - 4:35pm PDT
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