---
title: 'Vulkan Support Added to OpenUSD and Pixar’s Hydra Storm Renderer'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-22720-ff10f843547f5e1012d44574d2968d9c'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-22720-ff10f843547f5e1012d44574d2968d9c.md'
date: '2024-07-25'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - usd
---

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

  July 25th at 12:40pm

 In a collaborative effort between Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) members Pixar, Autodesk, and Adobe, we are excited to announce experimental support for the Vulkan API through the HgiVulkan backend, available in OpenUSD 24.08. OpenUSD is a high-performance, extensible software platform for collaboratively creating, editing, and simulating complex 3D scenes.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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