Not to be confused with the [1]Open 3D game engine, Intel's Intelligent Systems Lab Organization released Open3D 0.19 as the latest iteration of this open-source library for 3D data processing in Python and C++.

Open3D is a powerful open-source project from Intel for dealing with 3D data structures, various 3D data processing algorithms, and also a visualization viewer with support for physically based rendering and more.

Significant with the new Open3D 0.19 release is introducing experimental cross-platform GPU support via using the SYCL single-source C++ abstraction layer. For those with SYCL GPU support this can work across vendors and provide much faster 3D data processing.

Also on the GPU side is adding GPU-accelerated raycasting via Intel's Embree ray-tracing kernels project for faster geometry computations.

Open3D 0.19 also adds support for Python 3.12 as well as Numpy 2. Plus there is also new 3D geometry metrics, a new FlyingEdges algorithm, CUDA 12 support, and other updates.

The Open3D 0.19 release can be downloaded from [2]GitHub and you can learn more about this release or the Intel Labs open-source project in general via [3]Open3D.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Open+3D

[2] https://github.com/isl-org/Open3D/releases/tag/v0.19.0

[3] https://www.open3d.org/2025/01/09/open3d-v0-19-is-out-with-new-features-and-more-gpu-support/