The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced an intent to form the Open 3D Foundation to accelerate developer collaboration on 3D game and simulation technology.
A press release said the Open 3D Foundation will support open source projects that advance capabilities related to 3D graphics, rendering, authoring, & development. As the first project governed by the new foundation, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is contributing an updated version of the Amazon Lumberyard game engine as the Open 3D Engine (O3DE), under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
The Open 3D Engine enables developers & Content creators to build 3D experiences unencumbered by commercial terms & will provide the support and infrastructure of an open source community through forums, code repositories, & developer events. A developer preview of O3DE is available on GitHub from today. For more information and/or to contribute, please visit: https://o3de.org
