Blender 4.4 will import/export OpenUSD with displacements (Feb'25).
Realtime rendering with Meshes/SubD and Displacements is currently not supported on Apple, but it's mentioned in the feature list since (over) a year now. And I already saw unintended(?) exports from ObjectCapture with "unused" .exr displacement maps early 2023.
It looks to me as WWDC25 will bring it to iOS 19 and visionOS 3.
I also hope for <model>.

Trying to open a .usdz file on Android. What do y’all use?

#USDZ texture image rendering is completely broken in the latest iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 builds. I sure hope they fix it before release.

@stroughtonsmith

Automatic #LOD generation and progressive loading as well as BatchedMesh support are now available in Needle Engine >= 3.36 beta.

I put together a quick #demo
https://engine.needle.tools/demos/lods

Will fix an issue where the wrong mesh is exported for #USDZ / #Quicklook tomorrow and maybe prettify the scene a bit more or add more models

Adobe makes 3D file format Converters freely available on github:

https://github.com/adobe/USD-Fileformat-plugins

I started playing around with tinyusdz to start on a basic #WebGPU C++/ #WebAssembly #USDZ renderer: https://www.willusher.io/webgpu-cpp-usdz/ . You can load in USDZ files to try it, but it just does very simple geometry rendering for now. Code is here: https://github.com/Twinklebear/webgpu-cpp-usdz

Are there any good infinite canvas apps with 3D integration, preferrably glTF?

Apple has shipped Freeform, their take on an infinite collaborative canvas, and it's already a pretty good way to showcase 3D models.

Can directly embed USDZ files, view in 3D and AR with a click.

With our latest Needle Engine we now serve a #Quicklook AR experience on #iOS #Safari (#Mozilla #XR works too using #WebXR!) by dynamically exporting to #USDZ

In this first version we only support playback of animations - later versions will also bring behaviours