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Major NVIDIA Omniverse updates power 3D virtual worlds, digital twins and avatars, reliably boosted by August NVIDIA Studio Driver; #MadeInMachinima contest ...

Follow NVIDIA Omniverse on Medium, YouTube for additional resources and inspiration. While the #MadeInMachinima contest has wrapped, creators can graduate to an NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU in the #ExtendOmniverse contest, running through Friday, Aug. 19. The next generation of creative professionals is heading back to campus. Plus, this week’s featured In the NVIDIA Studio artist, Simon Lavit, exhibits his mastery of Omniverse as the winner of the #MadeInMachinima contest. Lavit storyboarded on paper before starting his digital process with the Machinima and Omniverse Create apps. The result was composited using Adobe After Effects, with an extra layer of effects and music. Then, Lavit used Autodesk Maya to create 3D models for some of his hero assets — like the protagonist Sol’s spaceship. Available now, the August NVIDIA Studio Driver gives creators peak reliability for using Omniverse and their favorite creative apps. Living in a different country from where he was born changed his vision of art, he said. The film then gets darker, conveying the idea of the unknown as the character starts his journey. New features and improvements to apps including Create, Machinima, Audio2Face and Nucleus will help 3D artists build virtual worlds, digital twins and avatars for the metaverse. The AI can also direct eye, teeth and tongue motion, in addition to the avatar’s skin, providing an even more complete facial-animation solution.

Nvidia reveals Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine and support for Universal Scene Description to help users create content for the metaverse.

Audio2Face allows for changes and enables avatars to have facial expressions that are tied to the audio. This feature targets one of the areas where the metaverse economy struggles: search for unstructured, untagged multimedia content, Thurai said. Nvidia also revealed new developer tools and applications for its Omniverse platform, a multi-GPU computing platform for creating virtual worlds. "People hate dealing with another bot, which is essentially what this is," he said. It also comes one day after the chip vendor's shares dipped amidst news that it missed Q2 projections. Working with organizations like Pixar, which created USD in 2015, Adobe, Autodesk and Siemens, Nvidia intends to make USD "the core pillar and foundation of the metaverse so that it will be analogous to the metaverse, just like HTML is to the web," Nvidia's Lebaredian said.

NVIDIA AI tools are enabling deep learning-powered performance capture for creators at every level: visual effects and animation studios, ...

These points are extracted from the video stream of the performer and applied to the avatar or digital character. Based on generative adversarial networks, or GANs, the model maps facial movements to capture real-time motion, transferring that motion to the virtual character. The performance can be applied in real time to animate an avatar, character or painting.

Effort to Further USD as Foundation of Open Metaverse and 3D Internet Led by Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, Siemens, Plus Innovators in Media, Gaming, Robotics,...

NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo and NVIDIA Omniverse are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics and ignited the era of modern AI. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. We are excited by the momentum behind USD from partners like NVIDIA, which we believe will help better realize the concept of the metaverse and all the workflows it unlocks for our customers.” Among the many companies contributing to and supporting USD are Adobe, Autodesk, Pixar and Siemens. The company is also providing hundreds of on-demand tutorials, documentation and developer tools to help spread USD education.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at SIGGRAPH is expected to share more about its universal Metaverse platform that could be adopted by Nvidia, ...

USD is an interchange framework invented by Pixar in 2012, which was released as open-source software in 2016, providing a common language for defining, packaging, assembling, and editing 3D data. "This year marks a similar inflection, one where we are seeing a new era of the Internet that is being called the Metaverse." The year 1993 was a pivotal year for a couple of major technology breakthroughs.

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia plunged after warning about lower-than-expected revenue in its gaming segment.

However, that still represents growth of 1% sequentially from the previous quarter and 61% on a year-over-year (YOY) basis.1 Nvidia also said it remained in a position to generate strong cash flow and continue share repurchase programs.1 The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker released preliminary second quarter (Q2) earnings yesterday, showing revenue reaching $6.7 billion, well below its earlier outlook of $8.1 billion. As we navigate these challenges, we remain focused on the once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvent computing for the era of AI."1 We have slowed operating expense growth, balancing investments for long-term growth while managing near-term profitability. "NVIDIA has excellent products and position driving large and growing markets.

Nvidia is going all-in on the metaverse. At this year's SIGGRAPH, an annual conference for computer graphics, Nvidia announced a range of new metaverse ...

Not only that, Nvidia claims that ACE will be able to create autonomous “virtual assistants and digital humans.” “We need to put stuff in the virtual world,” she said, “and we’re going to have many, many virtual worlds. Fidler even hinted that neural graphics would make it easy for social media users — and not just artists — to create 3D content based on photographs. These include the launch of Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a “suite of cloud-native AI models and services” to build 3D avatars; new neural graphics SDKs, such as NeuralVDB; plans to evolve Universal Scene Description (USD), an open source file format for 3D scene representation; and various other updates to its Omniverse platform. But will the metaverse — still little more than a concept in 2022 — ever match the impact of the web? This year’s SIGGRAPH will “probably go down in history,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and Simulation Technology, in a press briefing.

A weak demand environment for gaming GPUs sent the stock plunging to start the week. Nvidia will continue repurchasing its own shares due to its future growth ...

Management expects to report revenue of $6.7 billion for the fiscal Q2. This is down from its previous guidance of approximately $8.1 billion. Nvidia reported decelerating growth in gaming in the previous quarter, and analysts began sounding the alarm bells that lower selling prices for graphics processing units (GPUs), which are also used by cryptocurrency miners, could harm sales. This follows Nvidia's disclosure on Monday that revenue for the fiscal second quarter would come in below expectations.

NVIDIA used the SIGGRAPH conference to announce a wide range of developer frameworks, tools, apps, and plugins for NVIDIA Omniverse, the platform for ...

Additionally, NVIDIA Modulus, a physics machine-learning framework, is newly available as an Omniverse Extension. Modulus-trained Physics ML models are 4,000x and even 100,000x faster depending on the application, delivering near-real-time performance while providing unprecedented accuracy closer to high-fidelity simulations. The award-winning studio Industrial Light & Magic is leveraging DeepSearch to unlock its ever-growing library of hundreds of thousands of environment assets. “The metaverse is a multitrillion-dollar opportunity that organizations know they can’t ignore, but many struggle to see a clear path forward for how to engage with it.

NeuralVDB delivers up to 100x reduction in memory footprint for smoke, clouds and other sparse volumetric data.

NeuralVDB also enables users to achieve temporal coherency, or smooth encoding, by using the network results from the previous frame. NeuralVDB builds on the GPU acceleration of NanoVDB by adding machine learning to introduce compact neural representations that dramatically reduce its memory footprint. Building on the past decade’s development of OpenVDB, the introduction at SIGGRAPH of NeuralVDB is a game-changer for professionals working in areas like scientific computing and visualization, medical imaging, rocket science and visual effects.