Chipmaker NVIDIA announced Tuesday (Jan. 4) that its a free version of its Omniverse is available to millions of NVIDIA Studio creators using GeForce RTX and NVIDIA RTX graphics processing units (GPUs).
“With Omniverse, NVIDIA’s real-time 3D design collaboration and virtual world simulation platform, artists, designers and creators can use leading design applications to create 3D assets and scenes from their laptop or workstation,” the company said on its blog.
Launched in beta last year, Omniverse has been downloaded by nearly 100,000 creators, the company said, who are accelerating workflows with its core rendering, physics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies — building what NVIDIA describes as “interconnected 3D virtual worlds for commerce, entertainment, creativity and industry.”
These worlds will be filled with stores, homes, people and more, with all of it adding up to a challenging amount of content that often needs incompatible tools to…