Hybrid work has swiftly ushered several changes to the modern workplace in the past two years. From office optional working to serial laptop lifestyles, enterprises have needed to significantly expand employee support from their data centers and cloud deployments.

The installation of additional collaboration tools, as well as employee enablement software and programs, has put a strain on the traditional enterprise data center. Many businesses are responding to the increase in workloads by exploring data center expansion, acceleration, and optimization projects.

The reality is that we are living in a very distributed world, and it’s time for enterprise data centers to catch up. Organizations around the world are only going to see continued distribution of workloads, where they need to get applications near data and near the users that need to consume the data. This will inevitably create a large and varied topography in the space. It is crucial to ensure that enterprises have the right infrastructure in place to support these kinds of varied applications.

In this day and age, computing needs to be done everywhere — at the data center, the edge, and perhaps even within employees homes. Accelerated data centers of the future will seamlessly enable decentralization and rapid edge computing, all while delivering efficiencies to stay in alignment with corporate sustainability goals and initiatives.

Hardware solutions like DPUs, GPUs and CPUs can help enterprises solve security concerns that arise with distributed workforces, while still delivering on performance, manageability and maintenance for enterprise IT teams. Accelerated applications will be offloaded from CPUs to GPUs, and SmartNICs based on programmable DPUs will accelerate data center infrastructure services such as networking, storage and security, delivering unprecedented performance.   

CPUs are Powerful, But Not Powerful Enough for Hybrid Work

CPUs are essential — fast and versatile, CPUs linearly race through a series of tasks that require a lot of interactivity, such as calling up information from a hard drive in response to a user’s keystrokes. But the data size and compute size of these new applications—as well as the problems they’re trying to solve—are too large for CPU-only infrastructure. When accelerated computing software and systems are integrated, the same infrastructure can do much more work.

Accelerated computing is the use of specialized hardware to dramatically speed up work, often with parallel processing that bundles frequently occurring tasks. It offloads demanding work that can bog down CPUs, processors that typically execute tasks in serial fashion. 

NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform brings the next generation of unprecedented performance – software-defined and hardware-accelerated solutions for the age of AI.

DPU: Powering Unprecedented Data Center Transformation

The data processing unit (DPU) accelerates data center infrastructure processing. The NVIDIA BlueField DPU is a data center infrastructure on a chip that combines a high-speed networking interface with powerful, software programmable Arm® cores, enabling breakthrough networking, storage and security performance.

Many of the world’s top server manufacturers offer or are building systems powered by BlueField DPUs. BlueField offloads, accelerates and isolates a broad range of software-defined infrastructure services that previously ran on the host CPU, overcoming performance and scalability bottlenecks and eliminating security threats in modern data centers.

BlueField DPUs transform traditional computing environments into secure and accelerated data centers, allowing organizations to efficiently run data-driven, cloud-native applications alongside legacy applications. By decoupling the data center infrastructure from business applications, BlueField DPUs enhance data center security, streamline operations, and reduce total cost of ownership.

Accelerated Computing Platform: Optimized for Next Generation Workloads

The diversity of compute-intensive applications running in modern cloud data centers has driven the explosion of advanced technologies. Such intensive applications include AI deep learning (DL) training and inference, data analytics, scientific computing, genomics, edge video analytics and 5G services, graphics rendering, cloud gaming and many more.

Whether it’s scaling-up AI training and scientific computing, scaling-out inference applications, or enabling real-time conversational AI, NVIDIA Ampere Architecture provides the necessary horsepower to accelerate numerous complex and unpredictable workloads running in today’s cloud data centers.

The NVIDIA accelerated computing platform provides a way for customers to run diverse traditional and modern applications on a single high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable infrastructure. It brings together compute acceleration and high-speed secure networking in enterprise data center servers, built and sold by NVIDIA partners. This platform is supported by a vast suite of software that enables users to become productive immediately and can be easily integrated into existing industry-standard IT and DevOps frameworks, allowing IT to manage, deploy, operate, and monitor their infrastructure.

With accelerated data centers, enterprises can provide hybrid workers with power, performance and security that enables them to boost productivity and tackle complex workflows, no matter where they work from.

This end-to-end NVIDIA accelerated computing platform, integrated across hardware, networking and software, gives enterprises the blueprint to a robust, secure infrastructure. This technology will support develop-to-deploy implementations across all modern workloads, and reduce the energy consumption of data centers at an architectural level.

To learn more, watch the recent fireside chat with Kit Colbert, VMware CTO, and Michael Kagan, NVIDIA CTO, and see how you can expand, accelerate, and optimize your data center for hybrid work.

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Today, designers, artists, engineers and data scientists are facing new challenges when it comes to working remotely. The demand is rising for high-quality digital content, products, and virtual experiences — and teams must complete these projects while meeting tight deadlines, even when working from home.

Creating a hybrid work environment starts with delivering a much more flexible workplace, one that provides professionals with the powerful visual computing solutions they need to tackle complex tasks and maintain productivity from wherever they are.

To ensure business continuity and enhance flexibility, companies need powerful technologies that help remote workers create an optimally productive and efficient workspace — at home, in the office, at the studio, or anywhere else. For professional-grade performance while on the go, advanced solutions such as NVIDIA RTX professional laptop GPUs and NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations (vWS) deliver the performance and speed that enables hybrid workers and remote professionals to do their best work from anywhere.

Laptops for Demanding Visual Computing Workflows 

NVIDIA RTX technology transforms professional workflows, bringing the power of real-time ray tracing, AI, and advanced graphics to architects, designers, artists, scientists and researchers. With surging demand to do any work from anywhere, more professionals are choosing to use powerful, thin and light NVIDIA RTX-powered mobile workstations to enable hybrid work and boost their productivity.

Based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, this class of machine powered by NVIDIA RTX delivers breakthrough performance within portable laptop designs – fusing speed, large memory capacity, enterprise-grade reliability, and the latest NVIDIA RTX and Max-Q technology to handle the most demanding creative, design, and engineering tasks from anywhere.

Powerful NVIDIA RTX laptop GPUs allow users to achieve greater levels of productivity while running complex content creation workflows, 3D modeling , ray traced rendering, accelerated AI, VR and much more. Combining ISV software certifications, enterprise drivers and reliability with powerful RTX technology, these mobile workstations are ready to tackle the most demanding visual computing and AI workloads for professionals working remotely.

Companies around the world have already experienced the benefits of NVIDIA RTX. The design team at creative imaging studio Thomas Burke & Others (TB&O) used RTX-powered mobile workstations to drastically reduce rendering time, which resulted in improved efficiency. With the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU in a portable, mobile workstation like the Lenovo ThinkPad P1, TB&O designers have the portable power and performance they need to see their 3D designs come to life.

NVIDIA RTX technology changed how efficiently TB&O can process KeyShot renderings in the studio on desktop or networked machines. And now, NVIDIA RTX GPUs change what they can do on laptops while working from any location.

“The NVIDIA RTX A5000 chip now available on laptops such as the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 are cost-effective mobile solutions for anyone who needs to do real-time, photo-real visualization with KeyShot…..what it does for 2D to 3D design visualization is game-changing,” said Mike James, Managing Principal at TB&O.

“It changes where we can work and how fast we can work. Quite frankly, it has put the power to visualize the product that will come from the factory, long before it comes from the factory, in a lot more hands than ever before.

Alongside powerful hardware, teams can also take advantage of software powered by NVIDIA RTX technology to dramatically boost productivity and collaboration – such as NVIDIA Omniverse for 3D design collaboration, NVIDIA Broadcast for optimizing video conferencing with AI, or NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation software to bring accelerated visual computing to any device.

Powerful Virtualized Performance for Remote Environments 

Virtualization is raising the bar for a modern hybrid workspace — and with NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations (vWS), remote workers can experience desktop-level performance streamed to their local system.

Using NVIDIA RTX vWS, millions of creative and technical professionals can access the most demanding applications from any location, with powerful performance that rivals physical workstations, and all while meeting the need for greater security.

Using GPU-accelerated virtual workstations also enables enterprises to better equip their remote teams to do their best work, without the constraints of in-office desktop equipment.

NVIDIA RTX vWS comes with all the benefits of RTX technology, including real-time ray tracing, AI, rasterization and simulation. NVIDIA RTX also brings the power of AI to visual computing, which dramatically accelerates creativity by automating repetitive tasks, enabling all-new creative assistants and optimizing compute-intensive processes.

Learn more about NVIDIA RTX professional laptop GPUs and NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations

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I spoke with Richard Kerris, VP of Omniverse Platform Development at NVIDIA, about the technology that fuels today’s collaboration, and the trends driving the generational shift toward hybrid work.

Among the topics we discussed:

• There is a lot of buzz around the metaverse. What exactly is the metaverse? How will this help us work more collaboratively?
• We now live in a world where “hybrid work” – collaboration between professionals across locations and time zones – is primary and essential. What trends do you see driving this overarching theme?
• What’s the Nvidia advantage when it comes to supporting hybrid work and virtual worlds. Let’s talk about key tools.
• The future of hybrid work? Clearly it will only get more primary. What milestones or major developments do you foresee?

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As enterprises across industries adopt hybrid work environments, many companies are integrating augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) into their workflows to drive design review, training, virtual production, location-based entertainment, and more.

The promise of AR, VR, and MR—also collectively known as extended reality (XR)—is nothing short of revolutionary. But there are some common challenges with XR:

• Mobile VR and AR devices offer fantastic convenience and mobility, but they lack the memory and computational power to drive the high-fidelity and photorealism expected in enterprise experiences.
• Powerful VR workstations with NVIDIA RTX GPUs drive beautiful, high-fidelity immersive experiences — but these workstations typically require dedicated space and equipment, as well as awkward physical tethers to attach the VR headsets to the workstation.

This is where advanced XR streaming solutions come in. NVIDIA CloudXR, a groundbreaking innovation built on NVIDIA RTX technology, delivers VR and AR across 5G and Wi-Fi networks. With NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation software, CloudXR is fully scalable for data center and edge networks. 

With a solution like CloudXR, any XR endpoint device — including VR All-in-One (AIO) head-mounted displays (HMDs) and AR tablets/phones — can become a high-fidelity XR display capable of showcasing professional-quality graphics. This means globally distributed teams can stream and share high-quality immersive experience with colleagues, clients and stakeholders in any location.

XR is Trailblazing the Path for Hybrid Work

CloudXR is leading the way for enhanced collaboration, streamlined workflows and photorealistic virtual environments. Using the CloudXR platform, enterprises across industries like manufacturing, architecture, and media and entertainment are taking immersive experiences to the next level by combining high-quality graphics with the mobility of wireless XR devices. 

And with graphics powered by RTX technology, that means teams can build the most photorealistic virtual environments — and stream those environments to users around the world. With a good internet connection, there’s no longer a need for users to be physically tethered to an expensive workstation to have a seamless experience inside an immersive environment.

With XR streaming, design reviews can be significantly improved. Architects using CloudXR and untethered VR headsets can freely move around digital building models without being constrained by cables. Teams can even send an inexpensive lightweight VR headset to customers and colleagues located a thousand miles away, so they can join the discussion using CloudXR’s bidirectional audio for collaboration.  Lake | Flato, an architecture firm, is using XR streaming to enhance the design process and make design reviews easier for engineers and customers. Recently, Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has started to test Omniverse XR Remote for streaming their AECO designs with virtual and augmented reality.

Lastly, in the media and entertainment industry, professionals can enhance 3D workflows with immersive design and character creation in XR. Artists with an untethered VR headset can create fully rigged characters with applications like Masterpiece Studio Pro installed on a remote server. These apps then run remotely in the cloud and can be interactively streamed to users, so artists have more freedom to move around and create virtually from anywhere. 

And as we get closer to the future of virtual worlds, XR streaming from platforms like NVIDIA Omniverse — a real-time, RTX-powered simulation platform for 3D workflows — will transform how remote design teams collaborate. Globally dispersed project teams can use CloudXR and NVIDIA Omniverse to stream extended reality to mobile XR devices anywhere in the world, while maintaining the high-quality experience traditionally reserved for high-performance computers. 

Explore the Next Generation of XR Streaming

The CloudXR platform includes:

• The NVIDIA CloudXR software development kit, which supports all OpenVR apps and includes code samples for a broad array of XR client devices, including phones, tablets and head-mounted displays.
• NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation software to provide the highest quality hardware-accelerated rendering on virtual machines.
• NVIDIA AI SDKs to accelerate performance and increase immersive presence.

The CloudXR SDK comes with an installer for server components and open-source client applications for streaming XR content from OpenVR applications to Android and Windows devices.

Enhance XR Experiences and Simulations on AIOs

To continue enhancing the XR streaming experience, NVIDIA and VMware are working together to make it easier for businesses and professionals to adopt AR and VR. Workspace ONE XR Hub, an advanced engineering project from VMware, includes an integration with NVIDIA CloudXR, so enterprises can easily access the highest quality XR experiences.

Workspace ONE XR Hub with CloudXR will allow users to quickly access complex virtual and augmented environments, scenes, and simulations running on powerful workstations using an AIO headset.

Workspace ONE XR Hub client application on an AIO headset enables users to securely connect to remote VR and AR content running on virtual machines. And using VMware vSphere and VMware Horizon, companies can quickly deploy XR-capable virtual machines accelerated by NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software. 

The above demo showcases Workspace ONE XR Hub and CloudXR delivering real-time renderings of full-fidelity digital models from Autodesk VRED to AIO headsets, handheld phones and tablets, and even workstations.

The Autodesk VRED renderings are generated on centrally managed servers, which are built using NVIDIA RTX and NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation. The content is securely streamed to managed users and devices through Workspace ONE XR Hub with CloudXR. This demo showcases how collaborators can freely interact with one another on any device from any location in full fidelity, photorealistic immersive environments.

“From immersive training to immersive design solutions, our customers need the highest fidelity experience with the greatest mobility. Running VR applications on VMware vSphere with NVIDIA vGPU, combined with NVIDIA CloudXR to stream content to a mobile VR headset, is a great way to solve that challenge,” said Matt Coppinger, director of Product Management at VMware. “We’ve also been developing Workspace ONE XR Hub, which will provide simple and secure access to native and remote VR applications. CloudXR integrated in VMware Workspace ONE will provide the ultimate enterprise experience for users and IT.” 

Easy Access to Secure, High-Quality XR Training 

Additionally, users can securely stream cross-platform deployment of VR applications with the Innoactive Portal, a cloud-based solution that has revolutionized VR training and helped the workforces of major enterprises. Innoactive provides a platform to deploy VR training at scale in large organizations. Working with leading businesses around the world, Innoactive uses CloudXR to enhance VR training while keeping content secure and easily accessible from the cloud. By streaming NVIDIA CloudXR with Innoactive Portal, enterprises can deliver real-time XR training remotely, all while boosting efficiency and productivity.

With advanced XR streaming solutions like NVIDIA CloudXR, professionals around the world can work virtually from anywhere — they can experience benefits like the ability to view 3D designs without physical mockups, create physically accurate characters and animations, or visualize different car models with different materials and surfaces under various lighting conditions.  

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Before the pandemic, office efficiency and productivity manifested as open floor plans and interoffice technologies helped professionals tackle manual tasks and operational friction. But open floor plans and the occasional “working from a coffee shop” do not solve for efficiency, productivity and collaboration in a hybrid world. The operational friction has shifted. The blurred lines between in-person, virtual and distributed working require more sophisticated and robust solutions. 

Can Your Employees Do Any Job from Anywhere?

As new work ways emerge and evolve,  it will be less focused on health protocols, and instead help companies attract the best talent — wherever that person is located — and usher in ways for design, collaboration and simulation. Enterprises will build teams that operate beyond borders, not just beyond offices.

Certain roles in every organization and business ecosystem have higher technology requirements than others. Inexpensive laptops combined with collaboration tools and conferencing platforms have made it relatively easy for workers to transition to remote work at the start of the pandemic. But as we enter into this new flexible work paradigm, the laptops, workstations, servers, and virtual machines used by architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO), media and entertainment, and product development professionals need to be upleveled. More advanced platforms with cutting-edge performance are required to solve dispersed collaboration for graphics intensive workloads. 

When your business works to include efficiency and resilience in its plans and processes, you enable your teams to innovate and adapt on the fly. Arming these roles with powerful technology opens new doors for enterprises, provides competitive advantages, and furthermore, creates business resilience. 

 Consider how much faster businesses can close deals and move projects forward when:

• An architect can walk a client through an atrium with a 100-foot ceiling right in the client’s office with the help of virtual reality technology.
• A video artist can show photorealistic renderings on location almost instantaneously, without waiting through painfully long render times.
• Employees better understand customer feedback because they are in a virtual experience together, visualizing concepts or designs in real time.
• Changes and edits to product or building designs are made instantly because the technology is at hand, not back in an office.

Focusing solely on efficiency can overlook these advantages in favor of lower costs. But there is an advanced technology that brings powerful computing, virtual experiences, and AI to your employees, customers, and job sites — all for a fraction of the salaries your business typically pays for people in these roles.

NVIDIA RTXTM is a visual computing platform designed for the complex needs of professionals with roles in architecture, media and entertainment, manufacturing, scientific visualization, and more. While the GPU provides the power for visual computing in workstations, laptops and virtual machines, the real value NVIDIA provides is in its RTX professional platform ecosystem.

NVIDIA’s RTX ecosystem includes hardware and software partners, as well as application and framework providers. Thanks to this ecosystem, the professionals in your organization that need powerful visual computing platforms can choose their OEM provider and the software tools they need for their workflow.. Your employees bring their expertise in their chosen field and their ideas. NVIDIA RTX and its ecosystem of partners provide the tools they need to bring the ideas to life.

To help employees in roles with complex technology needs, NVIDIA Omniverse is an extensible, open platform built for virtual collaboration and real-time physically accurate simulation. It allows an organization’s creators, designers, researchers, and engineers to connect design tools, assets, and projects to collaborate in a shared virtual space. Omniverse’s modular platform allows developers to easily build extensions, apps, connectors, and microservices to expand its functionality.

NVIDIA RTX Empowers Enterprise Graphics Workloads

Architecture

NVIDIA RTX enables architects and designers to simultaneously view in real time an accurate, physically based render of their building model on an adjacent computer display while they iterate on design ideas using their design software. This GPU-accelerated workflow keeps designers in the creative flow and helps boost innovation. As a result, project teams can meet tight deadlines and ultimately deliver better designs for the built environment. 

Media and Entertainment

Filmmakers and audiences alike expect the visual effects elements in today’s movies to look amazing. New breakthroughs in technology are not only helping artists produce images that look more photorealistic, they’re also letting artists create visual effects from any location. Using NVIDIA RTX, visual effects artists can render up to 10x faster than using CPU, and creative teams can work on images from anywhere, at home or on set.

Manufacturing

Many of today’s innovative products require complex design workloads long before they are brought to market. Projects risk getting stuck in the research and development stage for years, and products that are scuttled mean significant losses. The costs of materials continue to increase along with design complexity, leaving little room for error. Manufacturers can overcome these challenges when they have tremendous compute performance available to increase their efficiency. NVIDIA RTX delivers real-time computing and extreme multitasking that allows product teams to optimize their workflows, process more complex models, render, run simulations in real time, and accelerate their manufacturing.

Many enterprises today are tackling complex design and visualization workflows with NVIDIA RTX technology. Learn more and discover how professionals are pushing past boundaries in visual computing.

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With the majority of US companies expecting their workforce to work remotely part time, organizations are turning to the hybrid workspace model to allow seamless transition between the office and home.  Global businesses are turning to the flexible workspace model as offices continue to open. NVIDIA virtual GPU products for end user computing transform workflows to liberate your users and data from the confines of traditional PC’s, workstations, and office spaces. Now your teams can seamlessly collaborate in real-time, irrespective of their location, using any device they choose to be productive. 

NVIDIA virtual GPU solutions for end user computing extend the power of the NVIDIA GPU to improve virtual desktops and applications, with a consistently great user experience for everyone, from remote office workers to mobile professionals to designers and engineers that need to work from anywhere.   

NVIDIA Virtual PC 

For teams to be productive, video conferencing tools, like Microsoft Teams have become necessary for real-time collaboration and communication. It is not enough for organizations to provide video conferencing tools, they also must ensure a suitable user experience with optimal video and audio quality. Recently, our NVIDIA labs team compared the performance of video conferencing tools running on CPU-only VDI to the same video conferencing tools running on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated VDI.  The NVIDIA GPU accelerated instance included NVIDIA Virtual PC (vPC) software and the NVIDIA A16 GPUs.  The user experience was poor on the CPU-only VDI due to high CPU utilization when accessing Microsoft Teams conferencing tools.  Video breakage and audio delays can lead to miscommunication, loss of information, lower productivity, and overall frustration. NVIDIA GPU-accelerated VDI delivered a consistently better user experience when using video collaboration tools with lower CPU utilization and higher frames per second (FPS).  

NVIDIA vPC extends the power of NVIDIA GPU to cost-effectively deliver immersive, virtualized hybrid workspaces that can deliver high performance video conferencing as well as other common, every day work tasks which are increasingly more graphic intensive. Mobile professionals and office workers can enjoy VDI, with a consistently great user experience that’s optimized for office apps and multimedia, with performance as good as many physical PCs.  NVIDIA vPC enables IT to virtualize modern apps, with virtual workspaces optimized for every worker, with greater security, improved scalability, and accessibility on any device including smartphones and tablets. Support for multiple displays enables improved work efficiency, while support for up to 5K display resolutions brings the benefits of better display performance to mainstream VDI users.   

NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation 

Toyota Motor Corporation is using NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS) to move to a more flexible workspace that is capable of supporting demanding, technical and creative applications including CAD (computer-aided design).  At present, more than 50 percent of Toyota’s CAD users are now using NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations.  Even engineers involved in design work can work from anywhere without being restricted by location, greatly improving work efficiency, accelerating the design and development process, and leading to improvements in work-life balance.  “We had a telecommuting system in place, but CAD work could not be done without coming into the office, so designers were unable to use it. With the introduction of RTX vWS, we are no longer restricted to coming into work, and are able to schedule our day more freely.” (Kazutaka Shimizu, assistant manager of Toyota’s ZEV B&D lab) 

NVIDIA developed visual computing, with NVIDIA RTX – the world’s most powerful visual computing platform, enabling designers, engineers, scientists and graphics artists to take on the biggest visualization challenges, with immersive, interactive, photorealistic environments. Leveraging NVIDIA data center GPUs, NVIDIA RTX vWS delivers virtual workstations from the data center to any device, anywhere.  Architects, engineers and designers are now liberated from their desk and can securely access their applications and data from anywhere and any connected device.  

To explore how NVIDIA vGPU can enable your workforce, try our free 30 Day Evaluation program today.

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Today, digital experiences in 3D design have become critical for businesses to succeed.

Whether it’s improving customer engagement, increasing market opportunities, collaborating or supporting workforce services — managing hybrid experiences is becoming a top priority for every CIO especially those whose business incorporates 3D design into their workflows.

Across industries, CIOs are looking for scalable and secure technologies that will help support employees working in this new environment without impacting productivity. To maintain employee productivity and creativity, and to help enhance their existing 3D workflows, IT leaders need to rise to the challenge of supporting these remote and hybrid workforces without compromising business objectives.

Companies relying on 3D production pipelines must build real-time connectivity for individuals and teams, their existing 3D design applications, asset and project libraries without disrupting current workflows.

Virtual worlds will shape the future of the hybrid workplace in three important ways.

Improved 3D Design Collaboration

Years ago, interactive collaboration in creative workflows used to come with significant challenges. But today, real-time collaboration in 3D design is becoming a reality, allowing people to create rich virtual worlds to capture realistic environments and 3D assets. And these virtual worlds can help remote teams enhance collaborative and iterative 3D workflows.

A shared virtual space allows people to interact and simultaneously collaborate in one environment, so they can see each other’s updates and changes to 3D models in real time. This improves design workflows as it reduces the amount of importing and exporting data to each other, and eliminates the need for constant iterations. Instead, everyone can see all the changes as they happen, resulting in a more seamless creative workflow.

Securing and Managing Data From One Place

From digital twins to building designs, global teams work with massive amounts of 3D data. Enterprises need a centralized location to store all this data, so the teams can easily access it whenever they need to.

Having a secure location for managing and storing assets will immensely help hybrid workers, as they can access 3D data and work on projects from any location. Whether they’re working at the office, on site or from home, universal asset managers and collaboration engines are essential to make this happen.

Enhancing Remote Productivity and Communication

The need for people to connect by using technology has never been greater. On average, eight percent of workforces regularly worked remotely before 2020. But this average has now grown to 27 percent during the pandemic, according to a joint MIT and VMware global executive study.

But the increasing number of remote workers doesn’t mean designers and creators have to struggle with maintaining productivity and connections. Enabling 3D design collaboration will help design teams from all over the world address the challenge of working flexibly. People will be able to connect and collaborate together on 3D designs and projects, even if virtually, no matter where they’re located.

The Future of Hybrid Work

CIOs can help their companies prepare for the hybrid workforces with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, a real-time 3D design collaboration platform that provides businesses with the ability to connect and accelerate existing 3D design workflows.

Omniverse Enterprise was built to enhance 3D design workflows for businesses, and was developed with the needs of disparate teams in mind. With the platform, teams can push creative boundaries by extending their existing tools and workflows. Design teams can use leading industry software applications such as such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya Revit, Trimble SketchUp, Unreal Engine and McNeel and Associates Rhino with Grasshopper —aggregating their datasets into a shared virtual scene – an Omniverse virtual world. By connecting these existing workflows, teams can achieve faster time to production, operational efficiencies, new heights of creativity, and less time wasted on tedious export-import between applications.

Hybrid workers and 3D design teams can use Omniverse Enterprise to collaborate more efficiently and productively, as they can work together simultaneously on projects in one virtual space.

Omniverse Enterprise enables enterprise teams to access collaboration from anywhere, whether workstation workgroups working locally, or virtualized from the data center, at home, or in the office. With NVIDIA Omniverse XR Remote built on the NVIDIA CloudXR streaming SDK, users can stream immersive, ray-traced AR and virtual camera content directly from a user’s desktop to any device, including iPads and smartphones.

If you’d like to explore real-time 3D design collaboration, try Omniverse Enterprise free for 30 days.

Learn more about NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise and how companies are enhancing hybrid work.

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