NVIDIA had a number of announcements at the recent CES 2025 and the OpenUSD team at NVIDIA had a great round up of announcements relevant to 3D aficionados. While my personal interest is more into animation, technologies related to 3D modeling always interest me due to their potential application. For example, can robot animation techniques … More NVIDIA and OpenUSD at CES 2025
3D product experiences can be useful on ecommerce sites. They are not needed on every site (yet), but just like zooming in on a product image can be useful, so can a 3D representation of a product. You can look at a product from all angles, possibly animating it to show it in use (functional … More Is OpenUSD useful for Ecommerce?
SyncTwin.ai has a cool feature where you can take a PowerPoint visual and an Excel spreadsheet to assemble a factory scene in OpenUSD. Very nice! I was wondering how to create something similar using Adobe Illustrator. I thought Illustrator might make it easier to do larger floor plans without worrying about the size of a … More OpenUSD Floor Design using Adobe Illustrator and NVIDIA Omniverse
How to do a Digital Clock (or other counter) inside an NVIDIA Omniverse scene? There are UI widgets, but they are painted on the viewport as an overlay. They are not a part of the 3D scene. Unfortunately there is no “3D text” in OpenUSD, so how to do a digital clock in a 3D … More An Omniverse Digital Clock
Omniverse have announced Omniverse Cloud, “a fully managed platform-as-a-service offering for developing generative AI-enabled OpenUSD applications.” While full details are yet to be published, browsing the Omniverse documentation, they describe how to build microservices using Omniverse Kit (their application building framework) with support for cross service API calls and a message bus. Omniverse Enterprise is … More Designing Enterprise Applications leveraging OpenUSD
I have been exploring using Generative AI (LLMs specifically) to assist with going from a screenplay to an animated video, learning about relevant technologies along the way. (No, I have not got that far, but it’s fun trying and learning!) For example, at the recent GTC 2024 there were some interesting sessions on Robotics from Google and Disney. It reminded me of an older paper on Voyager – getting AI to play Minecraft. The GTC videos are just being published now, so I also just got to view Jim Fan’s presentation on “Generally Capable Agents in Open-Ended Worlds”, which also mentioned Voyager. This blog summarizes the highlights from this work that interest me. … More AI Agents, Animation, and Minecraft
In this blog post I explore sending and receiving message bus events using the NVIDIA Omniverse framework in Python. I create two extensions: one to publish messages, and another to receive them. In an Omniverse Cloud project, the message bus will span microservices (using Redis I think read somewhere). In this blog, I use it … More Accessing the Omniverse Message Bus from Python
Interested in high quality 3D product configurators for your ecommerce site? The Omniverse team livestream today recapped the recent GTC conference, and over half the video was talking about product configurators including web delivery! What is Omniverse? Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything that is happening with just Omniverse, let alone the rest … More 3D Product Rendering in Web Pages with Omniverse Cloud
I have been watching a number of the NVIDIA GTC (GPU Technology Conference) talks on this week. I have mainly been watching talks related to Omniverse (their 3D rendering and simulation software). I was interested in automation of simple animated videos, such as how much can AI (such as large language models) reduce the effort … More Robotics for Character Animation?
NVIDIA Omniverse includes a number of AI based tools, including Audio2Face and Audio2Gesture. Audio2Face takes an audio file and generates facial blend shape animations. Audio2Gesture can take the same audio file and instead generate upper or full body animation clips. But it’s not easy at first blush to combine the two results. In this blog … More Audio2Face + Audio2Gesture – Merging the Streams with OpenUSD
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