What Is the USDZ File Format?
Developed as an open file format, USDZ can be used and implemented by anyone interested in its capabilities.
Developers looking to learn the detailed specifications behind USDZ should take a look atApple’s Developer documentation.
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What Program Opens USDZ Files?
Adobe is the first company to announce bringing built-in support for USDZ to their suite of Creative Cloud applications.
Already available as a free mobile app, the desktop version is now a beta release.
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For those interested, keep an eye onAdobe Project Aerofor further developments and improvements.
What Is the Difference Between USD and USDZ?
The “USD” in these file formats stands for “Universal Scene Description.”
The Z, in this case, stands for “zipped.”
When software expands it, it will be a folder containing everything USD and otherwise.
You may also see files with the USDA format.
The A here is for “ASCII,” and it means that the files are human-readable.
Non-A USD files are binary-encoded (machine-readable).
FAQ
Afile formatis a file structure that informs a computer how to display its information.
If you’ve used a computer, you’ve encountered numerous file formats.
USDZ is another file format that holds information for a computer to unpack and display data in augmented reality.
On the other hand,augmented realityis similar but combines both the virtual and physical worlds.
