What is NVIDIA Omniverse & How It's Making Remote Working More Efficient

Be it gaming, virtual reality experiences, automobile designing or digital architecture ¨C NVIDIA has truly established itself as a global name in graphics and innovation.

For over ten years, NVIDIA has been researching and deploying solutions for managing graphics workloads remotely, while enhancing virtual collaboration.

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Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) companies today are harnessing real-time 3D technology to alter the way in which buildings are designed, created, and operated. Industries including energy, government, healthcare, transportation, etc. have benefitted from NVIDIA¡¯s products and solutions.

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To gain a deeper understanding about AEC workflows and ¡®Omniverse¡¯, we got in touch with Mr. Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA.

Q. How has digitalization helped the AEC sector to adjust to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?

There have been significant ramifications of the pandemic in the way we have adapted to newer working models. The challenges have become disruptors in our fast-paced and rapidly growing industries. With colleagues working remotely from different parts of the world, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals are leveraging new technologies to obtain more efficient results.

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AEC companies today are harnessing real-time 3D technology to alter the way in which buildings are designed, created, and operated. There has been widespread adoption of real-time ray tracing and machine learning to create digital humans and scenes. With unparalleled authenticity for a digital representation, this game-changing technology has not only been embraced by the AEC industry, but also by industries including energy, government, healthcare, transportation, and more.

Q. Can you please elaborate on how NVIDIA enables the AEC Workflows

Central to architectural design and visualization are RTX GPUs, based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture. The NVIDIA RTX A5000 and A4000 incorporate next-gen performance and features for an unrivalled experience.

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The RTX GPUs facilitate engineers with speed and agility to accelerate graphics, create innovative products, design state-of-the-art buildings, render denoising, and run deep learning and super sampling from just about anywhere. A new range of mobile laptop GPUs also equip AEC professionals to select the perfect model in accordance with their workflow and budget.

Q. Tell us about NVIDIA Omniverse and how it allows seamless collaboration within the 3D ecosystem?

NVIDIA Omniverse, a collaboration and simulation platform, is also helping accelerate 3D workflows. It provides graphic engineers with the ability to collaborate on complex, CAD-accurate 3D scenes like cityscapes for design and visualization workflows with true physical accuracy. With true-to-reality immersive simulation, design teams can seamlessly review design concepts and run analysis without the need to tediously adjust, re-render, and repeat.

NVIDIA Omniverse offers an extensive range of features and benefits to support the everyday workflow of AEC professionals. With Omniverse, teams can not only continue using their preferred applications, but also simultaneously collaborate on large project files without the need for tedious export/import.

This means AEC designers can save measurable time and retain quality without the need for data preparation or decimation to complex models. As the platform is multi-GPU enabled, teams can easily meet the changing compute demands of varying project size and scale. With the ability to view stellar quality models on any device, anywhere, teams can achieve quicker approvals and streamline the way they collaborate on work, even if working remotely.

Q. How is NVIDIA bringing Mixed Reality to graphics?

NVIDIA CloudXR is driving the future of mixed reality, enabling users to work from anywhere with the ability to connect tetherlessly to powerful virtual workstations. CloudXR extends NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations, making it possible for users to stream fully accelerated immersive graphics from a virtualized environment.

With CloudXR, AEC professionals can view building designs and envision specific materials under various lighting conditions that would not have been possible even with physical mockups. Architects have the freedom to navigate around digital buildings without any physical barriers. Risk and safety assessment can be employed easily with access to impeccable visuals. Colleagues and clients separated geographically can come together and strategize efficiently.

Q. How does NVIDIA¡¯s CloudXR support the AEC industry to collaborate, especially in a pandemic stricken world?

These advanced tools have come together at a time when the AEC industry is struggling in a pandemic-stricken world to work remotely yet collaborate efficiently. Working on simultaneous designs, viewing photorealistic ray-traced models, exchanging feedback between colleagues and clients, and making modifications in real time are now in the arsenal of design teams. As a result, the conceptual design process is given center stage to achieve more ambitious designs while collaboration takes place more seamlessly than ever.

Q. Lastly, we have been hearing so much about the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) GTC 2021 lately in the media. Tell us more about it!

The wonders of technology are seamless, right? If the virtues of NVIDIA¡¯s Omniverse piqued your interest, we have some good news! NVIDIA¡¯s GTC Conference for AI Innovators, technologists, and creators is taking place November 8-11 2021. The conference is free, virtual and has hundreds of technical talks, packed with breakthroughs in AI, graphics, accelerated computing, data center, and more. Click here to register for free!