Today’s NVIDIA Omniverse livestream featured what, to me, was the most compelling vision of the potential of their platform I have seen yet. Meta placed a big bet on the metaverse being the future of social (Ready Player One anyone?), but it has not taken off (yet). VR is cool, but remains a niche market, … More Is USD + 3D Browser the next HTML + Web Browser?
I want to create NDVIDIA Omniverse projects with a backup of all my files in the cloud so I don’t lose everything if my desktop dies. How best to do it? The files can be large. In this blog I explore a few options: Note that a different approach is to use a more robust … More NVIDIA Omniverse and Backing Project Files to the Cloud
The “Omniverse Basics, Create for Production Part 1: USD and Layers” video describes how things work technically, but I found the “why” hard to understand at times. (Looking at the comments left on the video, I don’t think I am alone!) Here is my understanding from the video (combined with other reading), expanded into the … More NVIDIA Omniverse Shot Scene Standards
From the NVIDIA website, “NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a computing platform that enables individuals and teams to develop Universal Scene Description-based 3D workflows and applications.” It is based on USD, the file format originally developed by Pixar for their animation projects. For my purposes, it is similar to Unreal Engine and Unity for rendering 3D scenes and … More NVIDIA Omniverse Unity Connector
NVIDIA Omniverse includes Canvas, a cool little tool for creating 360 background images with minimal effort. You draw color patches where you want trees or bushes, and it uses generative AI to create photo realistic artwork. For free. … More NVIDIA Canvas
USD (Universal Scene Description) is an file format originally developed by Pixar for describing 3D scenes. A scene can include a collection of sets, characters, and props. In this blog I give a quick introduction, including how it is used to compose a hierarchy of sequences and shots similar to the Sequences package in Unity. … More Universal Scene Description (USD) format from Pixar
Ever wanted to quickly capture ARKit facial blend shapes for a OpenUSD project? There a number of free tools around, but I wanted to share one I have been working on as part of a larger project. The nice thing is there are zero software installs – it runs in a web browser! Does it … More ARKit Blend Shape Capture for OpenUSD
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