During his GTC 2023 keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed the upcoming enhancements and improvements for NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for creating and operating metaverse applications, and its Audio2Face application, which utilizes generative AI to create lifelike facial animations from just an audio source.
According to the announcement, the upgraded NVIDIA Omniverse features an open-beta version of the Unity Connector, which enables you to add your Unity scenes directly onto Omniverse Nucleus servers with access to platform features, such as the DeepSearch tool, thumbnails, bookmarks, and others, as well as an upgraded version of the Unreal Engine connector, which now lets you use UE's USD import utilities to add skeletal mesh blend shape importing, and Python USD bindings to access stages on Omniverse Nucleus, as well as brings improvements in import, export and live workflows.
Furthermore, the update adds more than a 1000 new SimReady assets, built to real-world scale with accurate mass, physical materials and center of gravity for use within Omniverse PhysX.