Nvidia launched cloud-based Omniverse services for building 3D digital twins and simulation environments.
NVIDIA announced its first software- and infrastructure-as-a-service offering on September 20, 2022: NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud, a comprehensive suite of cloud services for artists, developers, and enterprise teams to design, publish, operate and experience metaverse applications anywhere. The comprehensive offering includes Omniverse Cloud Nucleus, DRIVE Sim, Isaac Sim, and Replicator for synthetic data generation. According to Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, "The metaverse, the 3D internet, connects virtual 3D worlds described in USD and viewed through a simulation engine. With Omniverse in the cloud, we can connect teams worldwide to design, build, and operate virtual worlds and digital twins."
Using Omniverse Cloud, individuals and teams can experience in one click the ability to design and collaborate on 3D workflows without the need for any local compute power. Roboticists can train, simulate, test and deploy AI-enabled intelligent machines with increased scalability and accessibility. Autonomous vehicle engineers can generate physically based sensor data and simulate traffic scenarios to test a variety of road and weather conditions for safe self-driving deployment. The platform runs on the Omniverse Cloud Computer, a computing system comprised of NVIDIA OVX for graphics and physics simulation, NVIDIA HGX for advanced AI workloads and the NVIDIA Graphics Delivery Network, a global-scale distributed data center network for delivering high-performance, low-latency metaverse graphics at the edge.
Early supporters include RIMAC Group, WPP, and Siemens. WPP, the world's largest marketing services organization, is the first to launch automotive marketing services on Omniverse Cloud to deliver custom, advanced 3D content and experiences to leading automotive brands. Stephan Pretorius, chief technology officer at WPP, stated: "With Omniverse Cloud, we are changing the way we build, share and consume automotive content – bringing sustainable, low-emission production to our customers." Siemens, a leader in industrial automation hardware and software, is working closely with NVIDIA to leverage Omniverse Cloud and NVIDIA OVX infrastructure together to deliver solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software, said: "An open ecosystem is a central design principle for the Siemens Xcelerator digital business platform. We are excited to expand our partnership with NVIDIA, develop integrations between Siemens Xcelerator and Omniverse Cloud, and enable an industrial metaverse where companies can remotely connect their organizations and operate in real time across the complete product and production lifecycle."
RIMAC, a pioneer in electric vehicle technologies, is using Omniverse Cloud to provide an end-to-end automotive pipeline from design to marketing. Mate Rimac, founder and CEO of RIMAC, explained: "Electric motors are efficient and can adjust in an instant. Their flexibility allows engineers to create a car that can handle in a way a combustion engine car never could. Omniverse Cloud will provide similar efficiency and flexibility, enabling our engineering teams to focus on the design of the car model itself, and spend less time on the intricacies of complex 3D design pipelines. And with this 3D car configurator experience, it unlocks endless possibilities for customization without having to manually render each layer, which saves time and money." Huang showcased an Omniverse Cloud demo featuring an advanced, real-time 3D car configurator of the RIMAC Nevera, the recently launched electric hypercar from BUGATTI RIMAC, part of the RIMAC Group.
Omniverse Farm, Replicator and Isaac Sim containers are available immediately on NVIDIA NGC for self-service deployment on AWS using Amazon EC2 G5 instances featuring NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. Omniverse Cloud will be available as NVIDIA managed services via early access by application.