Nvidia Omniverse adds generative AI and Unity with update

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Nvidia has released a new update to its Omniverse Simulation Tools that will allow developers to leverage Unity's generative AI and game engine.

The latest release offers improved performance and usability, new deployment options, and new Omniverse connectors to expand the ecosystem. The company made the announcement during a virtual event ahead of the CES 2023 tech show in Las Vegas.

Nvidia also said new customers using Omniverse include Dentsu, Mercedes Benz, Zaha Hadid Architects. And Mercedes Benz plans to create a "digital twin" of a car factory in Germany. Then it will build a real factory based on the design of the digital twin.

With Omniverse, everyone from creators to game developers to businesses can create simulations to test things that are best evaluated in virtual worlds before they are deployed in the real world, like self-driving cars. And Omniverse is growing in popularity as hundreds of companies and hundreds of thousands of creators embrace it. It also includes technologies that are stepping stones to the metaverse.

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"One of the most exciting things we have is the arrival of Nvidia Omniverse on RTX laptops," said Richard Kerris, Vice President of the Omniverse Platform, during a briefing. hurry. “Now we're going to start seeing Nvidia's Omniverse Launcher, which is the starting point for using Omniverse, pre-installed on these new Nvidia Studio laptops. This means that we will make Omniverse available to millions of creators on the planet. And with the click of a button, we will be able to install Omniverse and take advantage of some of the platform's features in addition to existing workflows. »

While Nvidia owns Omniverse and uses the software to help sell its graphics processing units (GPU chips), it has adopted the open source Universal Scene Description (USD) standard (originally developed by Pixar) to enable companies to exchange 3D assets and allow them to run on just about any kind of hardware. (See our long history on the USD here). Nvidia also launched Omniverse Cloud, a way to access the software from over 100 countries using common hardware.

Omniverse is a collaboration and simulation platform. It brings together existing workflows and enables developers, engineers, and creators to simulate real-time environments with physically accurate materials and AI. And a bunch of third-party tools now connect to Omniverse. Nvidia showed a demo of six artists in different parts of the world collaborating on a real-time 3D stage.

The Omniverse is a good tool for creating digital twins, and digital twins are becoming extremely popular among companies such as Mercedes Benz. This allows them to perfect the design of a plant in an inexpensive yet accurate virtual simulation. Once the real-world factory is built based on the design, the company can collect real-world data from the sensors and transmit it to the digital twin. And it allows for other improvements in the design, Kerris said.

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