---
title: 'Vulkan Support Added to OpenUSD and Pixar’s Hydra Storm Renderer'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-support-added-to-openusd-and-pixars-hydra-storm-renderer'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-support-added-to-openusd-and-pixars-hydra-storm-renderer.md'
date: '2024-07-25'
---

#  Vulkan Support Added to OpenUSD and Pixar’s Hydra Storm Renderer 

  July 25th at 8:56am

 Today, we are excited to announce experimental support for the Khronos® Vulkan® API through the HgiVulkan backend, available in OpenUSD 24.08. This allows developers to start leveraging Vulkan in Storm or other Hgi-based renderers 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-support-added-to-openusd-and-pixars-hydra-storm-renderer)

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