Explained: What is NVIDIA Omniverse? Is Omniverse a Metaverse?

NVIDIA’s Omniverse: Many companies are racing to build their own versions of the metaverse. Facebook even changed its name to ‘Meta‘ to reflect its Metaverse dreams. A number of tech giants, including Microsoft and NVIDIA, are moving ahead with their plans to build metaverse platforms in order to capture significant market share in this emerging field.

NVIDIA, a company known for designing and manufacturing graphics processing units (GPUs), is leading in this race. One might say it reinvented modern graphics.

Now the same company is promising a 3D, immersive world where virtual collaboration will be effortless and industrial giants can experience the efficiencies of ‘digital twins’. NVIDIA Omniverse can be seen as a tool or platform to build and operate metaverse applications.

Enter the Omniverse

NVIDIA Omniverse is a multi-GPU-enabled cloud-native platform that enables scalable, remote collaboration with genuine real-time performance for teams working across locations, apps, and systems.

According to NIVIDA, “Omniverse is an extensible platform based on Universal Scene Description (USD), enabling individuals and teams to build custom 3D pipelines and simulate large-scale virtual worlds. “

Simply put, it is a platform for connecting three-dimensional worlds into a shared virtual environment. With NVIDIA Omniverse, anybody may build Metaverse applications.

NVIDIA’s  “Digital Twins”

NVIDIA is placing its bid to build Industrial Metaverse. They are trying to provide enterprises with large-scale virtual world simulations to revolutionize designing and optimise complex systems and processes.

Omniverse is developing something called ”Digital Twins,” which are physically accurate, AI-enabled, virtual simulations that are perfectly synchronized with the real world.

Simply put, they are virtual replicas of assets, processes, or environments. These simulations are live, connected, synchronized, and follow the laws of physics, materials, and lighting.

Digital Twins are being deployed on NVIDIA OVX, a special data centre computing system for building and operating virtual worlds that can provide the performance required to build and run real-time, physically accurate, AI-enabled metaverse worlds.

Digital Twins’ Goal

NVIDIA is aiming to help designers, researchers, and scientists solve the challenging problems using metaverse technologies. These digital twins have the potential to transform industries and scientific discoveries.

Developers, researchers, and businesses can use them to design, simulate, and optimise products, equipment, and processes in real-time before they ever go into production or development.

NVIDIA’s Universal Scene Description (USD)

NVIDIA is leveraging Universal Scene Description (USD), a powerful, extensible 3D framework originally developed by Pixar Animation Studios in 2012, for composing, editing, querying, rendering, collaboration, and simulation within 3D virtual worlds. This is being used for modelling physics, materials, and real-time path tracking in the virtual world.

NVIDIA released USD, an open-source software, in 2016. USD provides a rich, common language for defining, packaging, assembling, and editing 3D data across a growing range of industries and applications, including media and entertainment, gaming, architecture, engineering and construction, manufacturing, telecommunications, infrastructure, and automotive.

NVIDIA Omniverse can be split into three sections.

1. Omniverse Nucleus:  It is a database engine that links users and allows 3D assets and scene descriptions to be exchanged. Once connected, designers working on shading, animation, lighting, modelling, layout, and special effects can collaborate to build a scene. The nucleus can be accessed by several individuals at once.
2. The virtual environment simulation: composition, rendering, and animation engine.
3. The final component is NVIDIA CloudXR. It comprises client and server software for streaming extended reality content from OpenVR apps to Android and Windows devices, letting users enter and exit Omniverse.

Applications:

It is being employed across sectors for projects that need cooperation and the creation of ‘digital twins,’ or replicas of real-world buildings, factories, and products.

According to a Forbes report, companies such as Amazon, AT&T, BMW, Ericsson, Foxconn, GM, KrogerKR, Lowe’s, Mattel, Pepsico, Siemens, Sony, Universal Robots, and Valeo are adopting Omniverse to model reality (as digital twins) in the metaverse to enhance operations and designs.

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