NEW Xcode WWDC15 - Export from Blender - Supported formats - Alembic(.abc) Following the WWDC15 Apple mentioned the supported formats and even went as far as to emphasise the specific file format Alembic (.abc) which is the most modern of the formats listed below:



What are the advantages of this over COLLADA/OBJ? Is it something that blender can/will support? is it worth it?

(Hope this is the right place to ask this question)
According to Ton Roosendaal, head of the Blender Foundation, Alembic plays a vital part in the current Gooseberry project pipeline. here's a related reddit discussion
Basic export of Alembic seems to work since 2013.

But then it's still to check whether the Blender-flavored .abc files play nice with XCode.

Alembic was introduced to transfer animated mesh deformations and camera translations from animation and simulation suites to rendering tools.

I overheard on twitter: Work is in progress to base many of Blenders chaching on the open source alembic library.