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NVIDIA and OpenUSD at CES 2025
January 16, 2025NVIDIA had a number of announcements at the recent CES 2025 and the OpenUSD team at NVIDIA had a great round up of announcements relevant ...
Read moreAI Agents, Animation, and Minecraft
April 12, 2024I have been exploring using Generative AI (LLMs specifically) to assist with going from a screenplay to an animated video, learning about relevant technologies along ...
Read moreAccessing the Omniverse Message Bus from Python
April 11, 2024In this blog post I explore sending and receiving message bus events using the NVIDIA Omniverse framework in Python. I create two extensions: one to ...
Read more3D Product Rendering in Web Pages with Omniverse Cloud
April 3, 2024Interested in high quality 3D product configurators for your ecommerce site? The Omniverse team livestream today recapped the recent GTC conference, and over half the ...
Read moreGetting Google MediaPipe to control VRM Characters
January 7, 2024I am working on a web based 3D animation project where you can create an animated video using 3D character models, like a cut scene ...
Read moreGenerative AI for 3D Scene Backgrounds
December 14, 2023Generative AI can be great for background images in animated videos. Want a single shot walking along a path? Creating a background image can take ...
Read moreRetargeting Skeletal Animation to USD
November 13, 2023I am working on a project where I want to manipulate Skeletal Animation clips (for 3D computer animation) in JavaScript, then export to USD. Depressingly ...
Read moreSunbeams via Fog in Omniverse
September 14, 2023I am trying to work out how to do various cinematic effects in Omniverse. This post is one step on that journey, particularly for "God ...
Read moreMaking the Omniverse Hub Vision Reality
August 9, 2023At SIGGRAPH 2023, Jensen Huang (founder and CEO of NVIDIA) described Omniverse as more of a connector of tools, rather than the only tool you ...
Read moreNVIDIA Omniverse and the SIGGRAPH 2023 Keynote
August 8, 2023SIGGRAPH 2023 kicked off this week and the keynote was from Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO. I have been using NVIDIA Omniverse, so I ...
Read moreOmniverse 105 (beta) Colliders for Particle Mesh Hair and Clothes
July 4, 2023I am trying to identify a good solution for dangling hair bounces and cloth (e.g., a skirt) in NVIDIA Omniverse for characters/avatars. The recently released ...
Read moreAnimation Retargeting in Omniverse
July 1, 2023In NVIDIA Omniverse (and OpenUSD in general), animation clips are tied to a specific set of skeletal bone names. This is fine if you create ...
Read moreUsing Omniverse Audio2Face in Animated Film Production
June 29, 2023NVIDIA Omniverse includes Audio2Face, an AI powered audio clip to facial animation tool. Give it a voice track, and it can animate the face of ...
Read moreImplementing Springbones in Omniverse
June 17, 2023I am trying to bring VRoid Studio characters into NVIDIA Omniverse. Omniverse has powerful deformers and particle cloth physics support which I am still exploring ...
Read moreUSD Variants and Variant Sets
June 4, 2023Pixar USD (Universal Scene Description) is for modeling 3D worlds such as used in computer animated movies, 3D video games, VR/AR experiences, architecture, and robotics ...
Read moreFirst Steps for VRoid Studio characters in NVIDIA Omniverse
May 28, 2023I have been working on getting a VRoid Studio character imported into NVIDIA Omniverse. VRoid Studio is free software by Pixiv for creating 3D avatars. ...
Read moreNVIDIA Omniverse Rendering Options with Google Cloud
May 23, 2023I am an individual developer, but would like to have the option of running renders in the cloud without tying up my desktop. Most of ...
Read moreShould Omniverse have another license level?
May 22, 2023NVIDIA Omniverse has two levels of licensing. A free license for up to 2 users, and an enterprise license designed for teams deployed on premises. ...
Read moreUnity vs Omniverse for Cartoon Animation
May 19, 2023I have been using Unity for a while to create Cartoon Animations, and have recently been exploring NVIDIA Omniverse to see how it has been ...
Read moreVRoid Studio, meet NVIDIA Omniverse
May 10, 2023I am exploring the ability to import VRoid Studio created characters into NVIDIA Omniverse for animation and rendering. NVIDIA Omniverse is based on the USD ...
Read moreIs USD + 3D Browser the next HTML + Web Browser?
May 5, 2023Today'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 ...
Read moreNVIDIA Omniverse and Backing Project Files to the Cloud
April 29, 2023I 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 ...
Read moreNVIDIA Omniverse Shot Scene Standards
April 24, 2023The "Omniverse Basics, Create for Production Part 1: USD and Layers" video describes how things work technically, but I found the "why" hard to understand ...
Read moreNVIDIA Omniverse Unity Connector
April 18, 2023From the NVIDIA website, "NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a computing platform that enables individuals and teams to develop Universal Scene Description based 3D workflows and applications." ...
Read moreARKit Blend Shape Capture for OpenUSD
January 20, 2022Ever wanted to quickly capture ARKit facial blend shapes for a OpenUSD project? There a number of free tools around, but I wanted to share ...
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