NVIDIA Metaverse – Virtual 3D Worlds to Immerse and Share | SIGGRAPH 2021

1 - Das Metaversum und Omniverse 2 - Metaversum in der Realität 3 - Digitale Zwillinge im Metaversum mit Omniverse

NVIDIA released Omniverse as an open beta in December and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise in April 2021. Professionals from a wide range of industries have quickly adapted and adopted the software. At Foster + Partners, the legendary design and architecture firm that designed Apple’s headquarters and London’s famous 30 St. Mary Axe office tower – better known as “The Gherkin” – designers in 14 countries around the world collaborate to design buildings in their shared virtual Omniverse space. Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects pioneer, is testing Omniverse to bring together internal and external tool pipelines from multiple studios. With Omniverse, they can collaborate, render final shots in real time, and create huge virtual sets like holodecks.

Multinational networking and telecommunications company Ericsson uses Omniverse to simulate 5G wave propagation in real time to minimize multipath interference in dense urban environments.

For example, Ericsson uses Omniverse for real-time simulation of 5G wave propagation in dense urban environments Software company Bentley Systems uses Omniverse to develop a number of applications on the platform. Bentley’s iTwin platform creates a 3D digital infrastructure twin to simulate the design and then monitor and optimize performance throughout the lifecycle. The Metaverse can help humans and robots work together

These virtual worlds are ideal for training robots. One of the key features of NVIDIA Omniverse is that it obeys the laws of physics. Omniverse can simulate particles and liquids, materials and even machines, right down to their springs and cables.

Modeling the natural world in a virtual world is a fundamental skill for robotics. It allows users to create a virtual world where robots – powered by AI brains that can learn from their real or digital environment – can train.Once the brains of these robots are trained in the Omniverse, roboticists can load these brains onto an NVIDIA Jetson and connect it to a real robot. These robots will come in all sizes and shapes – box pushers, pick-and-place arms, forklifts, cars, trucks, and even buildings.

In the future, a factory will be one big robot that controls many robots inside and builds cars that are robots themselves.