Nvidia expands Omniverse ecosystem as downloads hit 300K

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Nvidia has expanded its Omniverse ecosystem, which is kind of like a metaverse for engineers and enterprises, as hundreds of companies are adopting it and downloads nearly 300,000.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a keynote at the company’s Nvidia GTC online event that the company’s Omniverse Cloud, a platform as a service, is now operational and making use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing.

Developers and creators can better realize the massive potential of generative AI, simulation and the industrial metaverse with new Omniverse Connectors, which make tools from many vendors interoperable for those designing virtual applications such as digital twins of factories.

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Omniverse Cloud, a platform-as-a-service unveiled today, equips users with a range of simulation and generative AI capabilities to easily build and deploy industrial metaverse applications. New Omniverse Connectors and applications developed by third parties enable enterprises across the globe to push the limits of industrial digitalization.

“Omniverse is not a tool, but a platform,” said Richard Kerris, vice president of the Omniverse ecosystem at Nvidia, in an interview with VentureBeat. “The platform that allows you to connect and build and operate metaverse applications. We believe in the future of the internet will be 3D and the industrial side of the metaverse will be companies that transition