In the last couple years, synthetic data has become a viable tool for augmenting datasets for AI use. One of the useful pieces that has arisen to make the process of generating synthetic environments more efficient are 3D models in the USD file format.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.edgeimpulse.com/blog/how-to-use-usd-assets-for-any-edge-ai-use-case-with-nvidia-omniverse