What's the problem?

Real world might be boring, but very useful. Especially for companies that move boxes around, not fantasy characters.

The topic was about a 3D art tool. What are "companies that move boxes around" using a 3D art tool for?

That's exactly what I think will happen. 3D is endgame for AI. 3D models are deterministic objects that provide continuity, while AI does non-deterministic abstract generation(thinking) + plans action plan for these 3d models.

Recent news on major AI scientists starting "world AI" companies confirm this trend.

So 3D soon will become a very important tech even compared to today.

Why do you think so? As far as I can tell - a lot of GPU empowered data centers are being built

There is CAD Sketcher, which is an extension for Blender which could allow to unite both worlds.

I'd like to hear someone's perspective on how difficult it would be to unify OpenUSD and CAD file formats so that they are portable between programs?

Last time I checked, CAD Sketcher appeared to be a little dead.

OpenUSD got just 1 mention in the release notes. Also wondering what is the state of this feature.

May I ask your opinion, as industry insider, regarding what makes a good and bad OpenUSD support?

That would be both feature completeness of the implementation and also some kind of a native USD authoring mode (editing the structure and layering multiple USD files properly), like Houdini Solaris or Nvidia Omniverse. For now Blender can’t even read/write MaterialX properly. (I’m not an insider though)

Do you think the next generation of Roblox will be a dominating games engine?

Roblox is strung up in its own closed and exploited ecosystem, so hopefully no.

I really hope not, but I wouldn’t bet against it. The nature of products that take high capex to build and then have nearly zero marginal cost to reproduce is monopolies.

How is Evangelion still running if the series was finished and even alternative ending was produced?

The same way Star Wars was still running in between the original series and the prequels. It had an active fan base and lots of side content that was constantly being produced.

Is there any good test scene that one can download to "test" capabilities of different software? Sorry if it is an ignorant question

This is great. Can I use it with existing scan of my room to fill the gaps? Not a random world

Update - yes you can. To be tested.

You also can't regenerate with the new point of origin. Generate -> stop ... No way to continue?

Update - it is a paid feature