Nvidia offers Omniverse Cloud as APIs

Huang announced five APIs and a raft of customer announcements including Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens. The APIs are USD (Universal Screen Description) Render to generate fully ray-tracked RTX rendering of OpenUSD data; USD Query, enabling scene queries and interactive scenarios; USD Write, to modify and interact with USD data; USD Notify, to track changes and provide updates and Omniverse Channel to connect users, tools and Omniverse worlds for collaboration across different scenes.

Developers can use the APIs to integrate Omniverse, the company’s collaborative, real-time 3D graphics technology, into existing design and automation software applications or simulation workflows to test and validate digital twins and autonomous robots or vehicles. The APIs can be used individually or collectively.

Nvidia has signed an agreement with Apple to introduce the Omniverse Cloud APIs to the Apple Vision
Pro to stream 3D USD scenes to the Nvidia Graphics Delivery Network (GDN) of graphics-ready data
centres. A demo showed a designer wearing Vision Pro designing a car using Katana’s car configurator application to select exterior paint and interior trim options and blend 3D photorealistic environments to present a physically accurate digital twin of a car streamed to the Vision Pro’s high resolution display.

“Apple Vision Pro is the first untethered device which allows for enterprise customers to
realize their work without compromise,” commented Rev Lebaredian, vice president of simulation at
Nvidia.

“Omniverse and generative AI are the foundational technologies to digitalise the $50-trillion heavy industries market,” said Huang.

The first APIs will be available later this year on Microsoft Azure, allowing developers to self-host on Nvidia A10 GPUs or as managed services on Nvidia OVX computing systems.

Siemens will be adopting the APIs within its Xcelerator software, initially with its Teamcenter X PLM (product lifecycle management) software to provide generative AI for immersive physics-based digital twins and for rendering. Anys is also adopting the Cloud APIs for data interoperability in its engineering simulation software and to provide RTX visualisation in products such as AVxcelerate.

Cadence will integrate the Cloud APIs into its Reality digital twin platform for design and optimisation of data centres before the physical build.

Other industrial software makers introducing Omniverse Cloud APIs into their portfolios will be Dassault Systèmes (3Dexcite), Microsoft, Rockwell Automation and Trimble.