I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
As opposed to the United States dollar that became public after 2013?
I mean, seriously: OpenUSD sounds like a cryptocurrency "stablecoin" token name.
It’s ok for jargon and acronyms to be confusing to people who are not at all in the field.
Trust me, it’s about programming. Not snake horror dystopias.
On the site itself, sure. Here, where not everyone "uses USD as part of their work", spelling it out in the title would have avoided this whole stub
USD is the US Dollar currency everywhere. Even americans who have dabbled with forex know. Apparently though, no one in the management of 5 large american tech companies.
Will they sue every currency exchange shop in the world for using their acronym?
Edit: and how are they going to make their format popular when all search engines are just going to give them the currency converter pages?
Everyone working in 3D content rendering will know what OpenUSD is, and then whenever it gets exposed to broader audiences, we'll get small confusion from people who don't work in 3D rendering.
They want closed systems as much as possible, only open standards etc. when forced to do so, because of course they want all the business and all the money. So USD probably good, but they will wield it against competitors (are there any anymore?) as much as possible.
IMNSHO. Sorry where it offends.
Always spell out acronyms upon first use in any discrete communication.
The reason this is so apt in government work is because workers become so familiar with lazily throwing around acronyms that they forget what those letters represent. I've witnessed first hand a person confidently throwing around acronyms as if they knew all about it, only to find out that they knew pretty much nothing about it aside from the letters that comprise the acronym.
In the fine article above, the acronym was clarified upon first use, and so all is well:
"Alliance to foster global collaboration for Universal Scene Description (USD)"
UNISD? UNIversal Scene Description
At least better than Universal Scene Specific (USS)
People working in computer graphics absolutely know what stable diffusion is.
I would also that at least a third of the US adult population doesn't know that USD is the abbreviation for symbol for US dollars. The average American never travels internationally.
The tech we buy is often USD-denominated and exchange risk is something we all deal with constantly for basic purchases, in business and personal life.
If we're just gonna make up statistics...
> Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is an extensible framework and ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. Originally developed by Pixar Animation Studios, USD, also referred to as OpenUSD, is more than a file format. It’s an open-source 3D scene description used for 3D content creation and interchange among different tools. [1]
It's so easy to fix... why not call it, say, a "Universal Scene Description Package" (USDP) or a "3D Scene Description" (3DSD) or "Layered Universal Scene Description" (LUSD) or "Modern Scene Description Format" (MSDF) or "Universal Scene Description Format" (USDF) or "Kronos Scene Description" (KSD) or "Kronos Universal Scene Description" (KUSD) or...