NVIDIA Omniverse is an extensible virtual collaboration and real-time simulation platform designed for real world collaboration and real time physical simulation. Users can share tools, projects, assets in an immersive virtual space.
Pixar has developed their Universal Scene Description (USD) technology using NVIDIA rendering, physics, and AI expertise over decades of engineering development at NVIDIA.
What is nvidia omniverse?
NVIDIA Omniverse is a virtual world that brings artists, engineers, and architects together in collaboration and creation. Its scalable architecture and modular development framework make it easy for users to build applications. Furthermore, AI avatars offer real-time language translation and intelligent recommendations.
Omniverse is a platform for 3D collaboration and simulation that enables teams to collaborate remotely on projects while accessing real-time data in one central location. Utilizing its powerful Real Time Transforming Technology (RTX), this powerful solution produces physically accurate results allowing engineers to design products at scale as well as creating digital twins of physical plants or buildings for companies like BMW Group or Ericsson to use with partners, designers, or manufacturers for collaboration purposes.
NVIDIA Omniverse is an end-to-end platform designed to transform complex workflows for organizations of all sizes. Deployed across small workgroups on local networks with Dell Precision workstations and laptops accelerated by NVIDIA RTX GPUs or among global distributed workforces using various devices, it enables teams to work collaboratively on 3D design workflows from any location while keeping sensitive assets protected in the cloud.
NVIDIA’s RTX GPU technology delivers stunning high-resolution graphics and realistic motion, using neural rendering and ray tracing technologies for stunning visuals and faster performance. Furthermore, this can power virtual reality headsets or accelerate video processing in games.
Universal Scene Description (USD) interchange framework is an integral component of its metaverse architecture, enabling developers to share 3D scenes across platforms and applications. USD serves as HTML for 3D content sharing; supporting Pixar’s open source “Universal Scene Description” and NVIDIA technologies for modeling physics, materials, real-time path tracking etc. Furthermore, USD facilitates complex property inheritance, insinuations layering lazy loading – perfect tools for developers working on complex 3D scenes!
Industrial digitalization
Nvidia Omniverse is used by enterprises to enable industrial digitalization. It provides a platform that enables collaboration and simulation across teams in a virtual universe, whether deployed locally on desktops, workstations and laptops accelerated with NVIDIA RTX GPUs or virtualized in the data center via RTX Virtual Workstation software (vWS). NVIDIA Omniverse delivers top-of-the-line performance and quality for many different applications such as design, modeling engineering manufacturing inspection testing and training.
These collaborative 3D environments enable companies to work in an accurate three-dimensional space that is easily accessible. This enables faster workflows and improved productivity while increasing iterations rates without incurring extra costs; also helping speed time-to-market while improving product quality.
NVIDIA Omniverse allows for the creation of digital twins to test and optimize production processes and systems, such as testing processes involving physical objects. By comparing digital models to physical objects, companies can make better decisions and increase profits with this technology used across many industries such as aerospace, automotive and energy.
Nvidia Omniverse also offers developers several simulation capabilities they can utilize when creating virtual worlds for industrial use, including USD Composer – a framework used to construct industrial virtual worlds – which can help simulate robot behavior as well as train and test industrial automation systems.
NVIDIA RTX is a multi-GPU renderer offering real-time ray tracing and ultrafast path tracing at unprecedented speeds, seamlessly integrated into host applications to enable real-time, synchronized workflows while increasing model and image fidelity. Available on Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems.
NVIDIA Omniverse allows Hexagon to connect its HxDR reality-capture and Nexus manufacturing platforms to the industrial metaverse via Universal Scene Description (USD) plug-ins, providing customers with seamless planning and scheduling operations in digital space as well as helping plant operations run more efficiently; all leading to enhanced customer satisfaction, reduced costs and an increased return on investment (ROI).
Self-driving vehicles
Nvidia made headlines this year at GTC with their Omniverse computer simulation technology, featuring CEO Jensen Huang’s demonstration of an engaging virtual avatar that supports real-time conversational AI in the future. This avatar included Riva speech recognition technology, Metropolis computer vision analytics and Audio2Face (a 2D and 3D facial animation engine). These technologies form part of Nvidia’s larger Omniverse ecosystem that also includes their DRIVE IX scalable cockpit platform as well as future autonomous driving features like DRIVE Concierge and Chauffeur autonomous driving features.
DRIVE IX and Omniverse platforms work hand-in-hand to accelerate automakers’ development of self-driving vehicles. Omniverse’s ultra-high fidelity, physically accurate simulation capabilities provide tight timing, repeatability, real time performance testing and validation of autonomous vehicle systems. Nvidia has already signed multiple automakers to use its solution and is on schedule for producing a fully autonomous vehicle by 2025.
Omniverse can also be utilized for augmented reality applications in automotive interior design and planning. Nvidia’s DRIVE Sim application, built on Omniverse, allows engineers to design in-cabin interfaces and simulate how driver experience and safety features affect driver behavior. Simulations can be run locally on desktop computers or remotely over the web allowing developers to refine designs quickly with less cost associated with on-road testing.
Omniverse provides designers and engineers with an invaluable way to collaborate on complex models in realistically accurate environments. Nvidia has integrated Omniverse into native software tools like Blender and Cinema 4D for collaborative use; their Connector SDK also enables them to build custom 3D pipelines allowing data silos to be broken down while breaking physical boundaries, with 12 connectors currently available and plans for further expansion.
NVIDIA’s RTX technology is well suited to the Omniverse as its purpose is to quickly render complex models more efficiently than traditional rendering methods can do. It delivers real-time ray-traced graphics that appear and feel more realistic, which make an incredible difference for artists creating 3D content creation and industrial digitalization. Designers using an RTX GPU can collaborate across wide distances on 3D models simultaneously with team members from various locations; helping decrease time needed to produce and deliver products.
Real-time collaboration
Nvidia has created the virtual world Omniverse to improve real-time collaboration. Combining real-time ray tracing, physics simulation and AI technologies with high-performance GPUs to produce photorealistic 3D environments that enable remote teams to work together more productively and efficiently on design workflows – this results in more productive design workflows and efficient design workflows resulting in the Omniverse platform having applications such as collaborative design, industrial digital twins and self-driving cars.
Omniverse features the Nucleus, a central database engine which facilitates real-time editing of shared 3D scenes, enabling multiple designers to collaborate simultaneously on them without uploading and downloading scenes in their entirety. Furthermore, this extensible platform supports numerous industry standard file formats as well as being expandable via plugins and extensions – with Supermicro’s deployments tailored specifically to handle real-time edits so each customer receives optimal performance from Omniverse.
Omniverse Enterprise is a scalable design platform that facilitates collaboration on shared 3D models from anywhere around the world. Leveraging NVIDIA RTX graphics technologies to simulate an entirely virtual world with physically accurate lighting and materials; as well as Material Definition Language (MDL), Omniverse Enterprise creates a visually rich, interactive, and realistic environment.
Design engineers, architects, and project managers use this platform to collaborate and communicate with their clients. It allows them to share real-time ray-traced or path-traced renders of designs for client review and approval – helping reduce design iteration cycles and ensure superior final products. Furthermore, geographically dispersed team members can work on projects together for improved productivity and communication.
Omniverse provides more than just a virtual workspace; it includes software tools to facilitate collaboration and visualization, including Nucleus, Connect and Kit apps that help facilitate application creation for Omniverse via NVIDIA Marketplace.
Omniverse can be seen at work in applications like DRIVE Concierge, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar that interacts naturally with drivers and passengers to provide voice-activated information display and respond to voice-command requests; additionally, DRIVE Concierge suggests destinations and provides directions.
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