
It's not graphics without a Utah teapot!)ġ1:50AM EDT - NVIDIA's Isaac robotics platform can interface with Omniverse as wellġ1:50AM EDT - Which among other things, can be used to train robots using a digital twin of a factory within Omniverseġ1:51AM EDT - NVIDIA has even created a digital twin of a BMW factoryġ1:52AM EDT - BMW is using this as part of their planning processesġ1:53AM EDT - Discussing an example of using the model to optimize an assembly line for productivity and safety by quickly adjusting the line and relocating various tools/stationsġ1:53AM EDT - BMW is also deploying logistics robots that are using isaacġ1:55AM EDT - It all looks impressive.
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All with an emphasis on high quality physics and renderingġ1:47AM EDT - One particular focus of Omniverse is "digital twins" creating a virtual copy of a real-world project/locationġ1:48AM EDT - This is one of NVIDIA's big pulls for its traditional professional graphics clients, especially in the movie and TV production industryġ1:48AM EDT - But also robotics, R&D, and pretty much any other use case you can think of where a shared, real-time interface to a model might be usefulġ1:49AM EDT - (Oh good, someone remembered the teapot. Or even resort to streaming for those devices that can't render it locallyġ1:46AM EDT - In other words, shared collaboration and design within a single 3D project.
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NVIDIA is also focused on productivity use of graphicsġ1:42AM EDT - NVIDIA's Omniverse technologyġ1:43AM EDT - Which was first announced a couple of years back, and went into beta testing late last yearġ1:43AM EDT - Omniverse is essentially a shared group simulation and graphics software packageġ1:44AM EDT - Omniverse is server-hosted, and any RTX client can plug in to see it. "I am AI"ġ1:34AM EDT - Starting right off the bat talking about AIġ1:34AM EDT - "AI and 5G are the ingrediants to kickstart the 4th industrial revolution"ġ1:35AM EDT - Jensen's talk will be in 4 stacks: graphics and omniverse, data center AI and server hardware, edge AI and EGX 5G, and automotive/DRIVEġ1:37AM EDT - "With just a GeForce, every student can have a supercomputer"ġ1:38AM EDT - Now recapping some of the things that NVIDIA's clients have been doing with their hardwareġ1:38AM EDT - By headcount, NVIDIA is primarily a software company (seriously), and there is no shortage of major computer science researchers set to give talks at this year's showġ1:39AM EDT - "Let's start where NVIDIA started: computer graphics"ġ1:40AM EDT - Recapping last year's introduction of second-generation RTX (Ampere) hardwareġ1:40AM EDT - Now rolling some video of some recently-released games and future games in developmentġ1:42AM EDT - Suffice it to say, game graphical quality has only continued to get better over the yearsġ1:42AM EDT - And NVIDIA wants ray tracing to push that furtherġ1:42AM EDT - But games aren't everything. Still, according to YouTube, we're looking at a 1 hour and 48 minute recordingġ1:33AM EDT - Rolling the intro video.

With a whole year to prepare, NVIDIA is firing on all cylinders ahead of the showġ1:32AM EDT - With the virtual show, this year's keynote is pre-recorded. 11:27AM EDT - Thank you for joining us for another year of the NVIDIA GTC keynote live blogġ1:28AM EDT - Whether physical or virtual, GTC is inevitab.ly a lot of news in a short period of timeġ1:29AM EDT - NVIDIA's revenues have doubled over less than half a decade, and with that so has the number of business they're inġ1:29AM EDT - Graphics, AI, automotive, HPC, and most recently networkingġ1:30AM EDT - So it's a lot for CEO Jensen Huang to go over in (ideally) less than 2 hoursġ1:30AM EDT - This year will be no exception.
