NVIDIA announced a significant update to its Omniverse platform. The company introduced new applications and services for developers and industrial enterprises to enhance 3D pipelines using the OpenUSD framework and generative AI, according to an Aug. 8 NVIDIA news release.
“Industrial enterprises are racing to digitalize their workflows, increasing the demand for OpenUSD-enabled, connected, interoperable, 3D software ecosystems,” Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA, said in the release. “The latest Omniverse update lets developers tap generative AI through OpenUSD to enhance their tools, and it allows enterprises to build larger, more complex world-scale simulations as digital testing grounds for their industrial applications.”
This platform update enhances virtual world creation and industrial digitalization, and it includes advancements to the Omniverse Kit engine, as well as new developer templates and XR developer tools for spatial integration, aiming to optimize the use of 3D tools and applications, the release reported.
The update introduced new foundational tools and services for programmers and business organizations to enhance and optimize their 3D workflows using the OpenUSD framework and generative AI, the release noted. The update to Omniverse, an OpenUSD-native software platform for integrating, defining and simulating 3D tools and applications, speeds up the development of complex industrial digitalization workflows and virtual environments.
Currently, Omniverse is connected to Cesium, Convai, Move AI, SideFX Houdini and Wonder Dynamics via OpenUSD, the release said. Advancements to Omniverse Kit, the engine for creating native OpenUSD applications and extensions, the NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2FaceTM foundation app and spatial computing capabilities are among of the platform update's standout features.
Among the Omniverse Kit's updates are building a new modular app. It is now simpler than ever to create custom apps using the more than 600 core Omniverse extensions offered by NVIDIA, thanks to the new Omniverse Kit Extension Registry, a central repository for accessing, sharing and managing Omniverse extensions, according to the release.
Developers just getting started with OpenUSD and Omniverse benefit greatly from the new application and experience templates because they need little to no coding, the release said. Also, with DLSS 3 completely incorporated into the Omniverse RTX Renderer and new rendering optimizations that fully exploit the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture improvements in NVIDIA RTXTM GPUs, huge industrial scenes can now be rendered in real-time at 4K resolution. A new AI denoiser also makes this possible.
Spatial computing possibilities may now be fully integrated into Omniverse-based applications thanks to new extended-reality (XR) development tools. This gives users the freedom to interact with their 3D creations and virtual worlds anyway they choose, according to the release.
The Omniverse foundation applications, which are completely customizable reference applications that artists, businesses and developers can replicate, modify or upgrade, serve as a showcase for these platform updates, the release said. With the Omniverse USD Composer, 3D users may put together expansive, OpenUSD-based scenarios. With the addition of international capabilities and a new female base model, Omniverse Audio2Face gives users access to generative AI application programming interfaces that generate realistic facial movements and gestures using just an audio file.
