NVIDIA announced on March 18, 2024, that it will make Omniverse™ Cloud available as an API, extending the reach of the world’s leading industrial digital twin application and workflow creation platform to the entire ecosystem of software manufacturers.

With five new Omniverse Cloud application programming interfaces (apis), developers can easily integrate Omniverse’s core technology directly into existing digital twin design and automation software applications, or into simulation workflows for testing and validating autonomous machines such as robots or autonomous vehicles.

3000510-510  Some of the world’s largest industrial software manufacturers are adding the Omniverse Cloud API to their software portfolios, including Ansys, Cadence, Dassault Systemes’ 3DEXCITE brand, Hexagon, Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens and Trimble.

Jen-hsun Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: “All products made will have digital twins. Omniverse is an operating system that can build and manipulate physically real digital twins. Omniverse and generative AI are both foundational technologies needed to digitize the $50 trillion heavy industry market.”

New Omniverse Cloud API

Five new Omniverse Cloud apis can be used individually or in combination. They are:
USD Render: Generates a full ray-tracing NVIDIA RTX™ rendering of OpenUSD data
USD Write: allows users to modify and interact with OpenUSD data
•USD Query: supports scene query and interactive scenarios
•USD Notify: Tracks changes in USD and provides updates
Omniverse Channel: Connect users, tools, and the world to collaborate across scenarios

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Bring interactive visualization and collaboration to industrial applications

Siemens, a technology leader in automation, digitalization and sustainability, is adopting the Omniverse Cloud API in its Siemens Xcelerator platform, starting with Teamcenter X, the leading cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software.

During his GTC keynote, Huang demonstrated Teamcenter X’s connection to the Omniverse API, which opens the path between design data and NVIDIA’s generative AI API and allows for direct use of 3000510-510  Omniverse RTX rendering within the application.

Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens, said: “With the NVIDIA v able to leverage generative AI to empower customers to make their physics-compliant digital twins even more immersive. This will help everyone virtually design, build and test the next generation of products, manufacturing processes and plants before they are actually built. By combining the physical world with the digital world, Siemens Digital Twin technology is helping businesses around the world become more competitive, resilient and sustainable.”

Ansys, a leader in engineering simulation software, is using the Omniverse Cloud API to enable data interoperability and RTX visualization, such as Ansys AVxcelerate™ for autonomous vehicles, Ansys Perceive EM for 6G simulation, and ANSYS AvXCelerate ™. And solutions such as NVIdia-accelerated solvers such as Ansys Fluent™.

Cadence, a leading provider of computing software, is embracing the Omniverse Cloud API in its Cadence® Reality Digital Twin Platform, enabling businesses to design, simulate, and optimize data centers in digital twins before building physical ones.

Dassault Systemes, a leader in sustainable innovation in virtual universes, is using the Omniverse Cloud API and Shutterstock 3D AI services to support generative storytelling for its 3DEXCITE content creation application.