Award-winning research, stunning demos, a sweeping vision for how NVIDIA Omniverse will accelerate the work of millions more professionals, and a new pro RTX GPU were the highlights at this week’s SIGGRAPH pro graphics conference. Kicking off the week, NVIDA’s SIGGRAPH special address featuring Richard Kerris, vice president, Omniverse, and Sanja Fidler, senior director, AI Read article >

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Calling all warriors. It’s a glorious week full of new games. This GFN Thursday comes with the exciting release of the new battle royale NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, as well as the Hello Neighbor franchise as part of the 11 great games joining the GeForce NOW library this week. Plus, the newest Assassin’s Creed Valhalla DLC has Read article >

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In a turducken of a demo, NVIDIA researchers stuffed four AI models into a serving of digital avatar technology for SIGGRAPH 2021’s Real-Time Live showcase — winning the Best in Show award. The showcase, one of the most anticipated events at the world’s largest computer graphics conference, held virtually this year, celebrates cutting-edge real-time projects Read article >

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With deep learning, amputees can now control their prosthetics by simply thinking through the motion. Jules Anh Tuan Nguyen spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about his efforts to allow amputees to control their prosthetic limb — right down to the finger motions — with their minds. The AI Podcast · Jules Anh Read article >

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Immersive 3D design and character creation are going sky high this week at SIGGRAPH, in a demo showcasing NVIDIA CloudXR running on Google Cloud. The clip shows an artist with an untethered VR headset creating a fully rigged character with Masterpiece Studio Pro, which is running remotely in Google Cloud and interactively streamed to the Read article >

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In a turducken of a demo, NVIDIA researchers stuffed four AI models into a serving of digital avatar technology for SIGGRAPH 2021’s Real-Time Live showcase — winning the Best in Show award. The showcase, one of the most anticipated events at the world’s largest computer graphics conference, held virtually this year, celebrates cutting-edge real-time projects Read article >

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Life in the metaverse is getting more real.  Starting today, developers can create and share realistic simulations in a standard way. Apple, NVIDIA and Pixar Animation Studios have defined a common approach for expressing physically accurate models in Universal Scene Description (USD), the common language of virtual 3D worlds.  Pixar released USD and described it in 2016 at SIGGRAPH. It was originally designed so artists could Read article >

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With its powerful real-time ray tracing and AI acceleration capabilities, NVIDIA RTX technology has transformed design and visualization workflows for the most complex tasks, like designing airplanes and automobiles, visual effects in movies and large-scale architectural design. The new NVIDIA RTX A2000 — our most compact, power-efficient GPU for a wide range of standard and Read article >

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What is the metaverse? The metaverse is a shared virtual 3D world, or worlds, that are interactive, immersive, and collaborative. Just as the physical universe is a collection of worlds that are connected in space, the metaverse can be thought of as a bunch of worlds, too. Massive online social games, like battle royale juggernaut Read article >

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The future of 3D graphics is on display at the SIGGRAPH 2021 virtual conference, where NVIDIA Studio is leading the way, showcasing exclusive benefits that NVIDIA RTX technologies bring to creators working with 3D workflows. It starts with NVIDIA Omniverse, an immersive and connected shared virtual world where artists create one-of-a-kind digital scenes, perfect 3D Read article >

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Computer graphics and AI are cornerstones of NVIDIA. Combined, they’re bringing creators closer to the goal of cinema-quality 3D imagery rendered in real time. At a series of graphics conferences this summer, NVIDIA Research is sharing groundbreaking work in real-time path tracing and content creation, much of it based on cutting-edge AI techniques. These projects Read article >

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Autonomous trucking startup Embark is planning for universal autonomy of commercial semi-trucks, developing one AI platform that fits all. The company announced today that it will use NVIDIA DRIVE to develop its Embark Universal Interface (EUI), a manufacturer-agnostic platform that includes the compute and multimodal sensors necessary for autonomous trucks. This flexible approach, combined with Read article >

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