The Metaverse begins as NVIDIA Omniverse goes into open beta

The NVIDIA Omniverse is now in open beta. The open, cloud-native platform, a take on the Metaverse concept introduced by author Neal Stephenson, makes it easy to accelerate design workflows and collaborate in real time.

As part of the open beta, NVIDIA has released several Omniverse applications, including Omniverse View for architecture, engineering and construction professionals; Omniverse Create for designers, creators and specialists in media and entertainment and manufacturing/product design; and Omniverse Kaolin for 3D deep learning researchers.

Early next year, the company said it will release Omniverse Audio2Face, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered facial animation app; Omniverse Machinima for GeForce RTX gamers; and Isaac Sim 2021.1 for robotics development. NVIDIA Isaac Sim 2021.1, releasing in February, is built entirely on Omniverse and meets the demand for accurate, reliable, easy-to-use simulation tools in robotics. Researchers and developers around the world will be able to use the app within Omniverse to enhance their robotics simulation and training.

Omniverse allows creators, engineers and researchers to collaborate in virtual worlds that are all connected. The platform enhances efficiency, productivity and flexibility, as teams from across the room or across the globe can enter Omniverse and simultaneously work together on projects with real-time photorealistic rendering.

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Users can download the open beta directly from NVIDIA and run it on any NVIDIA RTX-enabled GPU.