NVIDIA has just unveiled its latest advancement: the NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud will now be accessible as APIs, broadening the influence of their leading platform designed for industrial digital twins. These new application programming interfaces (APIs) are set to integrate seamlessly with existing design and automation software, enhancing digital twin capabilities and simulation workflows, especially for testing and validating autonomous machines such as robots and self-driving vehicles.
Several prominent industrial software companies are already incorporating these Omniverse Cloud APIs into their software solutions. Among them are Ansys, Cadence, Dassault Systèmes (particularly their 3DEXCITE brand), Hexagon, Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens, and Trimble. This integration promises to revolutionize how these industries handle digital twins and simulations.
The five APIs introduced are versatile tools designed to cater to various needs. The USD Query API facilitates scene queries and interactive scenarios, and USD Notify tracks changes in USD data, keeping users updated. Finally, Omniverse Channel connects different users, tools, and worlds, enhancing collaborative efforts across scenes.
Siemens, a leader in automation and digitalization, is adopting these APIs within its Siemens Xcelerator Platform, starting with Teamcenter X, their renowned cloud-based product lifecycle management software. This integration allows Teamcenter X to connect design data with NVIDIA’s generative AI and utilize Omniverse RTX rendering directly in the application. This leap will enable Siemens’ customers to create immersive digital twins, helping to design, build, and test products and manufacturing processes in a virtual space before physical implementation.
Ansys, known for its engineering simulation software, is leveraging the Omniverse APIs to enhance data interoperability and RTX visualization in their solutions like Ansys AVxcelerate™ for autonomous vehicles and Ansys Fluent™. Cadence, another major player in computational software, is integrating these APIs into its Cadence® Reality Digital Twin Platform to optimize data center design and simulation. Dassault Systèmes is using the APIs alongside Shutterstock 3D AI Services to enhance generative storytelling in their 3DEXCITE applications.
Other notable implementations include Trimble, which plans to use the APIs for interactive NVIDIA Omniverse RTX viewers with their model data, and Hexagon, which will integrate its reality capture sensors with the APIs to offer hyper-realistic simulations. Rockwell Automation is also set to utilize the APIs for RTX-enabled visualization.
As the demand for autonomous machines and AI-based monitoring grows, these APIs aim to accelerate the development process. By connecting a broad developer ecosystem, including platforms like Foretellix’s Foretify™ and CARLA, with top sensor solution providers, Omniverse Cloud APIs will enhance full-stack training and testing with high-fidelity simulations.
Initially available on Microsoft Azure, these APIs will soon be offered to developers using self-hosted and managed NVIDIA systems. The arrival of these APIs marks a significant step in the next era of industrial digitalization, allowing organizations worldwide to enhance their tools and create advanced AI-enabled digital twins, transforming various industries with new possibilities.
