SANTA CLARA — At the GTC conference, NVIDIA unveiled its latest innovation: Omniverse Cloud APIs, extending the capabilities of its Omniverse platform to power a new wave of industrial digital twin software tools. These APIs, adopted by leading industry players such as Ansys, Cadence, Hexagon, Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens, and Trimble, facilitate the integration of core Omniverse technologies into existing design and automation software applications. By leveraging Omniverse Cloud APIs, developers can seamlessly incorporate real-time ray-traced rendering, scene querying, and collaboration features into their digital twin workflows, enabling more immersive and efficient design, simulation, and validation processes.
Siemens, for example, is integrating Omniverse Cloud APIs into its Siemens Xcelerator Platform, enhancing the capabilities of its cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software, Teamcenter X. Through this integration, Siemens customers can harness generative AI to enhance the realism of their digital twins, enabling virtual design, testing, and optimization of products and manufacturing processes. Similarly, Ansys and Cadence are adopting Omniverse Cloud APIs to enable data interoperability and real-time visualization in their respective engineering-simulation and computational software solutions.
Moreover, the adoption of Omniverse Cloud APIs extends beyond traditional manufacturing and engineering sectors. Trimble, a leader in construction and geospatial technology, plans to leverage these APIs to enhance the visualization capabilities of its model data, while media companies like WPP and Media.Monks are exploring the use of Omniverse for AI-driven content generation and hyper-personalization. Continental, a major automotive supplier, is developing a digital twin platform to optimize factory operations and streamline time-to-market processes.
In addition to facilitating industrial digital twin development, Omniverse Cloud APIs are poised to accelerate autonomous machine development by enabling high-fidelity sensor simulation and full-stack autonomy testing. Partnering with sensor solution providers like FORVIA HELLA, Luminar, SICK AG, and Sony Semiconductor Solutions, NVIDIA aims to provide developers with the tools needed to train, test, and validate autonomous systems effectively.
The introduction of Omniverse Cloud APIs signifies a significant advancement in the digitalization of heavy industries, with implications ranging from enhanced product design and manufacturing to optimized factory operations and AI-driven content creation. As the demand for digital twins and autonomous systems continues to grow, NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform emerges as a pivotal enabler of innovation across industries. Attendees can learn more about Omniverse at GTC sessions, running through March 21.
