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Game Development in Omniverse

NVIDIA Omniverse^™ is a game-changing virtual platform built for collaboration and real-time photorealistic simulation. Game developers can now maximize productivity, enhance communication, and boost innovation while collaborating on the same 3D model from anywhere.

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REVOLUTIONIZING GAME DEVELOPMENT

To satisfy gamers' expectations for enormous, immersive worlds, global teams of artists must build massive libraries of 3D content. This is both labor intensive and expensive, and the process becomes more challenging when incorporating realistic lighting, life-like physics, and optimal game performance with AI is taken into account.

NVIDIA Omniverse addresses these challenges and helps game developers build photorealistic, physically-accurate games with record speed by unifying artists, their assets, and software tools in one powerful platform.

ACCELERATING GAME DEVELOPER WORKLOADS AT ANY SCALE

Seamless Collaboration

Now, massive game development teams can be unified on a single, interactive platform—even when simultaneously working with different software applications—to rapidly develop scenes, characters, textures, or environments in real-time.

Design to Ray-Traced in One Click

Teams can produce beautiful, physically accurate visuals with less effort—no data prep or model decimation needed.

Faster Time to Approvals

Iterate quickly and explore more designs with the ability to export RTX ray-traced models. Teams, clients, and contractors can view the high-fidelity model on any device, anywhere.

Game development content pipelines are complex and require us to use the best aspects of multiple applications.

By adopting Pixar's Universal Scene Description (USD), we will leverage universal asset and application interoperability across our tools to accelerate time to production and optimize our workflows.

— Takeshi Aramaki | Studio Head & VP | Luminous

WORKFLOW

TRANSFORMING GAME DEVELOPMENT CONTENT CREATION

NVIDIA Omniverse helps to iterate on virtual world ideas with real time graphics and physics simulation

Bring Games to Market Faster

Create and iterate on virtual worlds at the speed of light, all while using your favorite design tools and engines such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, and Epic Games Unreal Engine. Omniverse enables live-sync collaborative workflows meaning artists, designers and developers can iterate on characters, textures, and environments simultaneously, in real time for faster review cycles.

Digital Asset Management Libraries Accelerated by AI

Manage Expansive Asset Libraries

AAA game studios have extremely large asset catalogs that have been built up over years and will continue to grow. The Omniverse platform's AI and advanced rendering capabilities allow developers to search through thousands of assets, saving precious time for artists on tight deadlines.

Learn how Activision utilizes DeepSearch

Omniverse Machinima Redefines Video Game Storytelling

Redefine Video Game Storytelling

With AI-powered animation, true real-time ray and path-traced rendering, and advanced simulation, Omniverse Machinima helps redefine storytelling. The application enables game developers to remix, recreate, and redefine animated video game storytelling through the use of immersive visualization, collaborative design, and photorealistic rendering.

Check out Omniverse Machinima

Easily Animate 3D Character Faces From Voice Recordings With Omniverse Audio2Face

Simplify 3D Character Animation

With Omniverse Audio2Face, game developers can match any voice-over track with in-game characters. This can be done in real time, or baked, and allows for breathtaking and life-like facial animations.

See Omniverse Audio2Face in Action

SOLUTIONS

APPLICATIONS AND CONNECTORS FOR GAME DEVELOPMENT

Omniverse offers purpose-built applications for game development workflows, including Omniverse Create, Omniverse Audio2Face, Omniverse Machinima, and Omniverse View. Industry professionals can use Omniverse View with third-party applications connected to the platform via Omniverse Connectors.

NVIDIA OMNIVERSE CREATE

NVIDIA OMNIVERSE AUDIO2FACE

NVIDIA OMNIVERSE MACHINIMA

NVIDIA OMNIVERSE VIEW

Autodesk 3ds Max

SideFX Houdini
Coming Soon

Adobe Photoshop

Substance Source
Coming Soon

Blender
Coming Soon

Autodesk Maya

Substance Designer

Epic Games Unreal Engine 4

Reallusion Character Creator

Autodesk MotionBuilder
Coming Soon

Substance Painter

NVIDIA Omniverse Create

Omniverse Create is an application that accelerates advanced scene composition and allows users to interactively assemble, light, simulate, and render scenes in Pixar USD in real-time.

Game artists can now build complex, physically accurate, real-time simulations of game environments in a photorealistic setting.

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NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face

Omniverse Audio2Face is an AI-powered application that generates expressive facial animation from just an audio source.

Audio2Face simplifies animation of a 3D character to match any voice-over track for game characters. You can use the app for interactive real-time applications or as a traditional facial animation authoring tool. Run the results live or bake them out, it’s up to you.

Learn more about NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face

NVIDIA Omniverse View

Omniverse View is a simple, powerful visualization application for reviewing 3D design projects in stunning, physically-accurate photorealism.

This will enable studio and project leads to visualize full game assets, speeding up review cycles.

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NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima

Omniverse Machinima enables users to collaborate in real-time to animate and manipulate characters, along with their environments, inside of virtual worlds.

This allows everyone - from gamers to studio specialists -to create game cinematics with full creative control like never before.

Learn more about NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima

BUILD YOUR OWN TOOLS

Unlike monolithic development platforms, Omniverse was built from the ground up to be easily extensible and customizable with a modular development framework. Developers can easily build extensions, apps and microservices using Omniverse Kit.

Every Omniverse App, such as Machinima or Audio2Face, is a pre-set collection of over 200 Omniverse Kit Extensions, small pieces of code purpose-built to achieve a specific task.

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For Individuals

Download NVIDIA Omniverse Open Beta for free today and get started on building the future. Omniverse is built for individuals to design and work across applications in real time while utilizing ray-tracing.

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Get access to all Omniverse Open Beta Apps, Connectors
Free access to community news, tutorials, and trainings

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For the Enterprise

Bring remote 3D collaboration and physically-accurate simulation to the enterprise with the NVIDIA Omniverse^™ Enterprise platform, sold by our NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) and leading systems manufacturers.

Optimized for enterprise deployment on NVIDIA-Certified Systems^™ and NVIDIA RTX^™
Subscription includes Omniverse Nucleus Server, Omniverse Connectors, and Omniverse Create and View applications.
Full NVIDIA Enterprise support services

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Develop on Omniverse

Easily extend the Omniverse platform by building extensions, apps, Connectors, or microservices. There are over 200 pre-built extensions available with source code, alongside an entire exclusive suite of tools, resources, and training available for members.

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