I haven't been able to find anything online about this, but is there a way to convert a .usdz file or .usd file to some other easily parse-able file type (like json, xml, etc) in order to store this data in a SQL database? Anything info is helpful, thanks!

Hello usd team, The WWDC 10141 talk mentions documentation comparing RealityKit vs Storm, but I didn’t find it. is it available already? thanks!

Is the "new lighting" introduced in WWDC22 "Explore USD tools and rendering" implemented only in AR Quick Look or has it become an integral part of the SceneKit and RealityKit rendering engines?

If you use SceneKit with ARKit, the AR scene uses the SceneKit renderer. Should you use SCNScene.write() to create a USDZ file and then open the USDZ file with AR Quick Look, AR Quick Look renders the AR scene with the RealityKit renderer. The ARKit-in-app -> USDZ -> AR Quick Look renderers are not the same and could produce different appearances. Have you seen similar problems with SceneKit -> AR Quick Look rendering? I am using such a pipeline with PBR lighting and have observed that the resulting differences in material properties are large. (The geometries are fine.) I have had to compensate by recreating the SCNScene materials with modified properties. The agreement between the app scene and the AR Quick Look scene is greatly improved but unfortunately still not acceptable for critical evaluation of commercial products in interior design.

Hello USD team, Thanks for the great demo USD and Hydra/Storm demo! Is it possible to build an app with USD Hydra/Storm -> SwiftUI interactions? Ex: a car configurator that has: a car as a USD file animations desired on the USD file. SwiftUI button to opens the doors, another button to play a sound, etc? everything rendered in Hydra/Storm. as the demo app Thanks.

With WebXR and event-exchange with maybe coming next summer, would you please consider to add Live-Text to ARQL? Currently an interactive AR scene is not able to redirect the user to any other webpage, except the originating. And only a single tapToPay event can be sent at the end of an ARQL session without any reasonable payload. I've come up with a in-house workflow to build interactiveUSDZ archives for product configuration that dynamically show/update an https-URL representing the user's choice that forwards you to an order form / Webshop. A sample project can be evaluated here: https://kreativekk.de/Swivel.html Currently users have to take a screenshot of their configuration, including this URL and switch over to the Photos.app to let it recognise and invite to open the link.