At last week’s CES, Nvidia announced that its metaverse platform Omniverse has come out of beta and will be available free to individuals. But when Facebook pivoted to the metaverse in late October (and changed its name to Meta), Nvidia quickly https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/11/09/expanded-omniverse-ecosystem/ for Omniverse and hinted that it would soon become a consumer platform.

Omniverse has officially turned into a content creation platform for virtual worlds on the consumer internet. Nvidia is welcoming “millions of individual creators and artists” onto its platform, to build for the next generation internet.

All of Omniverse is built on top of Pixar’s open source https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/release/intro.html (USD), which Nvidia has pitched as the “HTML of 3D worlds.”

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