{"id":10906,"date":"2020-10-07T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T11:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2020-10-07T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T11:29:25","slug":"nvidia-announces-omniverse-open-beta-letting-designers-collaborate-in-real-time-from-home-or-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/nvidia-announces-omniverse-open-beta-letting-designers-collaborate-in-real-time-from-home-or-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Announces Omniverse Open Beta, Letting Designers Collaborate In Real Time – From Home Or Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photorealistic, 3D Simulation and Collaboration Platform Open Beta Follows Early Access Program with Ericsson, Foster + Partners, Lucasfilm, 40+ Others<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tens of millions of designers, architects and other creators will soon be able to collaborate in real time, whether on premises or remotely, with the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform<\/a>, which NVIDIA today announced has entered open beta, with availability for download this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing together NVIDIA breakthroughs in graphics, simulation and AI, Omniverse is the world\u2019s first NVIDIA RTX™-based 3D simulation and collaboration platform that fuses the physical and virtual worlds to simulate reality in real time and with photorealistic detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the platform, remote teams can collaborate simultaneously on projects \u2013 such as architects iterating on 3D building design, animators revising 3D scenes, and engineers collaborating on autonomous vehicles \u2013 as readily as they would jointly edit a document online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The open beta of Omniverse follows a yearlong early access program in which Ericsson, Foster + Partners, ILM and over 40 other companies \u2013 and as many as 400 individual creators and developers \u2013 have been evaluating the platform and providing feedback to the NVIDIA engineering team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPhysical and virtual worlds will increasingly be fused,\u201d said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, who revealed the open beta in his digital keynote address at the GPU Technology Conference<\/a>. \u201cOmniverse gives teams of creators spread around the world or just working from home the ability to collaborate on a single design as easily as editing a document. This is the beginning of the Star Trek <\/em>Holodeck, realized at last.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omniverse is based on Pixar\u2019s widely adopted Universal Scene Description <\/a>(USD)<\/a>, the leading format for universal interchange between 3D applications. The platform also uses NVIDIA technology such as real-time photorealistic rendering, physics, materials and interactive workflows between industry-leading 3D software products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omniverse enables collaboration and simulation that are essential for customers working in the robotics, automotive, architecture, engineering and construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a longstanding collaboration with NVIDIA around our production workflows using their GPUs,\u201d said Steve May, CTO at Pixar. \u201cAnd with their adoption of Pixar\u2019s Universal Scene Description for Omniverse, it continues even more so; together we are committed to advancing the state of the art in computer graphics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOmniverse represents the platform of the future for all aspects of virtual production,\u201d said Bill Warner, Avid Technology founder and chairman of Lightcraft Technology. \u201cWe\u2019ve been actively evaluating this platform from NVIDIA and have made the decision to base our entire product line on this amazing new technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Leaders Turn to Omniverse to Collaborate<\/strong>
Industrial Light & Magic, a Lucasfilm company and global leader in visual effects for motion pictures and television, calls out the importance of having the ability to improve creative process and animation pipelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNVIDIA continues to advance state-of-the-art graphics hardware, and Omniverse showcases what is possible with real-time ray tracing,\u201d said Francois Chardavoine, vice president of Technology at Lucasfilm and ILM. \u201cThe potential to improve the creative process through all stages of VFX and animation pipelines will be transformative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other early adopters of NVIDIA Omniverse include leading architectural design and engineering firms and telecommunication companies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n