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Seyond to Expand LiDAR Solutions for Autonomous Vehicles with NVIDIA DriveWorks and Omniverse Integration

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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Collaboration with NVIDIA looks to enable more functional, streamlined design for automotive LiDAR integration

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  • Collaboration with NVIDIA looks to enable more functional, streamlined design for automotive LiDAR integration
    SUNNYVALE, CA, Mar 19, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - Seyond, a leading global provider of high-performance LiDAR solutions for autonomous vehicles and smart transportation, today announced its collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate Seyond's cutting-edge LiDAR solutions within the NVIDIA DriveWorks and NVIDIA Omniverse platforms.
  • By combining Seyond's industry-leading LiDAR technology and expertise with NVIDIA's expansive automotive development solutions, Seyond looks to transform the way autonomous vehicles are designed, developed and tested.
  • NVIDIA DriveWorks is the foundation for autonomous vehicle software development and deployment, and now offers Seyond's LiDAR as one of its many versatile tools.
  • "The integration of Seyond's LiDAR solutions into DriveWorks and Omniverse is indicative of our commitment to producing high-quality, rigorously tested LiDAR solutions to further the development of safer, smarter and more efficient autonomous driving and smart infrastructure solutions worldwide," said Ezana Tesfu, Director of Business Development at Seyond.

NVIDIA Announces Earth Climate Digital Twin

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC -- To accelerate efforts to combat the $140 billion in economic losses due to extreme weather brought on by climate change, NVIDIA today announced its Earth-2 climate digital twin cloud platform for simulating and visualizing weather and climate at unprecedented scale.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC -- To accelerate efforts to combat the $140 billion in economic losses due to extreme weather brought on by climate change, NVIDIA today announced its Earth-2 climate digital twin cloud platform for simulating and visualizing weather and climate at unprecedented scale.
  • “Climate disasters are now normal — historic droughts, catastrophic hurricanes and generational floods appear in the news with alarming frequency,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
  • It also includes GPU acceleration of numerical weather prediction models like ICON on the latest NVIDIA Grace Hopper™ systems.
  • Running on NVIDIA DGX GH200, HGX™ H100 and OVX™ supercomputers, Earth-2 may provide a path to simulate and visualize the global climate simulations at unprecedented speed and scale.

OMNIVISION Announces Automotive Image Sensor with TheiaCel™ Technology Now Compatible with NVIDIA Omniverse for Autonomous Driving Development

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor solutions, including advanced digital imaging , analog and touch and display technology , today announced that its OX08D10 8-megapixel CMOS image sensor with TheiaCel™ technology is now compatible with the NVIDIA Omniverse™ development platform.

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  • OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor solutions, including advanced digital imaging , analog and touch and display technology , today announced that its OX08D10 8-megapixel CMOS image sensor with TheiaCel™ technology is now compatible with the NVIDIA Omniverse™ development platform.
  • OMNIVISION is demonstrating the solution at booth 636 during NVIDIA GTC, taking place through March 21 at the San Jose Convention Center.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240318783012/en/
    OMNIVISION Announces Automotive Image Sensor with TheiaCel™ Technology Now Compatible with NVIDIA Omniverse for Autonomous Driving Development (Graphic: Business Wire)
    NVIDIA Omniverse is a platform of application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits (SDKs) and services that enables developers to easily integrate Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and RTX rendering technologies into their 3D applications and services.
  • “We are proud to be part of the ecosystem of NVIDIA partners who are working together to accelerate AV development.

Alliance for OpenUSD Launches Materials & Geometry Working Groups, Forms New Liaison Relationship

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), an organization dedicated to fostering the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), today announced the formation of a new Materials Working Group, a new Geometry Working Group, and a new collaboration with the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), as well as 8 new members.

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  • Standardizing material definitions within OpenUSD will facilitate seamless collaboration for look development across multiple tools, applications, and renderers.
  • New Geometry Working Group to Standardize USD Surfaces, Shapes, and Volumes for Virtual & Physical Worlds
    Building upon ongoing work in the Core Specification Working Group, the new Geometry Working Group will draft specifications for describing surfaces, shapes, and volumes in USD for both virtual and physical worlds.
  • All of these areas are critical to formalizing OpenUSD geometry specifications across industries.
  • AOUSD working groups will collaborate with ASWF USD working groups on OpenUSD and on material interchange through ASWF's MaterialX project.

Ansys Accelerates Autonomous Vehicle Development with NVIDIA Omniverse

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Thursday, January 4, 2024
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) announced that Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors will be accessible within NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, a scenario-based AV simulator powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) applications for industrial digitalization. The integration will provide users access to high-fidelity sensor simulation outputs generated with Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors for the training and validation of perception ADAS/AV systems.

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  • Support for OpenUSD and Integration of Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors within NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, improves development and validation of AV perception systems
    Ansys will augment NVIDIA DRIVE Sim's powerful scenario generation capabilities to enhance advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and AV perception development with predictively accurate physics solvers for camera, lidar, radar, and thermal camera sensors
    PITTSBURGH, Jan. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) announced that Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors will be accessible within NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, a scenario-based AV simulator powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) applications for industrial digitalization.
  • Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors will augment NVIDIA DRIVE Sim's high-fidelity, scalable 3D environments for scenario generation with Ansys' predictively accurate physics solvers for camera, lidar, and radar sensors.
  • "Integrating Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors simulation with DRIVE Sim offers developers greater flexibility to develop, test, and validate their autonomous vehicle software," said Zvi Greenstein, vice president of autonomous vehicle infrastructure at NVIDIA.
  • "Combining Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors with NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, powered by Omniverse, provides a rich playground for developers to test and validate critical environmental interactions without limitations, paving the way for OEMs to accelerate AV technology development."

RAVE Computer showcases new Varjo XR-4 headset in stunning new collaborative demo at I/ITSEC, the World's Largest Modeling, Simulation and Training Event

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Monday, November 27, 2023
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The collaboration combines the latest technologies from RAVE Computer, Varjo, and NVIDIA – three industry leaders in immersive technology.

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  • The collaboration combines the latest technologies from RAVE Computer, Varjo, and NVIDIA – three industry leaders in immersive technology.
  • “RAVE Computer’s collaboration with Varjo and NVIDIA reflects our dedication to advancing training and simulation in the defense industry,” shared Stacey Ferguson, President and Owner of RAVE Computer.
  • RAVE Computer is the only Varjo Reseller to have an XR-4 demo available during I/ITSEC.
  • “When launching the XR-4, Varjo chose RAVE’s RenderBEAST workstation for the best possible experience.” John Burwell, Global Head of Simulation and Training, Varjo.

Alliance for OpenUSD Unveils Roadmap for Core USD Specification and Ecosystem Collaboration

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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SYDNEY, Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGGRAPH — The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), an organization dedicated to fostering the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description), today unveiled its roadmap toward becoming a standard, as well as a new collaboration and a dozen new members.

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  • AOUSD's Core Specification working group will first define the foundation of OpenUSD, specifying how low-level data is structured and interpreted, ensuring portability and interoperability across software platforms and devices.
  • "The new roadmap shared today shows the progress the alliance is making and unveils milestones and planned expansions over the next year to ensure interoperability and collaboration."
  • The Alliance aims to deliver final approval of the core specification at the end of 2025.
  • The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) can help drive the collaboration that's needed to make this possible and Meta is dedicated to this work.

Adobe Releases Next Generation of Firefly Models

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Today, at Adobe MAX – the world’s largest creativity conference – Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Adobe Firefly Image 2 Model , Adobe Firefly Vector Model and Adobe Firefly Design Model , the next major release in its family of creative generative AI models.

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  • Today, at Adobe MAX – the world’s largest creativity conference – Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Adobe Firefly Image 2 Model , Adobe Firefly Vector Model and Adobe Firefly Design Model , the next major release in its family of creative generative AI models.
  • Firefly Design Model powers instant generation of amazing quality template designs in Adobe Express with the new Text to Template capability.
  • Like the initial Firefly model, Firefly Image 2 is trained on licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where the copyright has expired.
  • The new Firefly Design Model powers the instant generation of stunning template designs with the new Text to Template capability in Adobe Express, using the best professional layout technology combined with Firefly Image Model, Adobe Stock and Adobe Fonts.

NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024

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Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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Joined with global system makers to announce new NVIDIA RTX™ workstations with up to four new NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs, as well as NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software, expected to ship this quarter.

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  • Joined with global system makers to announce new NVIDIA RTX™ workstations with up to four new NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs, as well as NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software, expected to ship this quarter.
  • NVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its second quarter fiscal 2024 financial results and current financial prospects today at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time).
  • The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until NVIDIA’s conference call to discuss its financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2024.
  • NVIDIA believes the presentation of its non-GAAP financial measures enhances the user’s overall understanding of the company’s historical financial performance.

Global Firefighting Drone Market Forecasted to Reach $2.76 Billion by 2030 as Demand Skyrockets

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Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Firefighting Drone Market has been growing consistently since after the pandemic, and is projected to have substantial growth in the coming years. Firefighting drones can be remotely controlled and can carry firefighting equipment such as foam dispensers or water cannons. The major purpose of designing firefighting drones was to control fires in areas that are inaccessible to firefighters or fire trucks like dense forests and high-rise buildings. These drones are capable to monitor and capture scenes in instances where firefighters and fire trucks cannot reach them. Several benefits associated with firefighting drones to prevent fire damages is expected to drive the market growth over the forecast period. Growing instances of fire-related accidents in the oil and gas industry are majorly driving the demand for firefighters drones. In this industry, drones are being deployed for several applications such as inspection of offshore platforms, leak detection in pipelines, refining equipment, emergency response, and material handling.  As per Cognitive Market Research's latest published report, the Global Firefighting Drone market size was $1.31 Billion in 2022 and it is forecasted to reach $2.76 Billion by 2030. Firefighting Drone Industry's Compound Annual Growth Rate will be 9.8% from 2023 to 2030.  The report said: "In recent years, firefighting drones are used to fight forest fires. These drones can fly immediately to the location and map the affected area. During a forest fire, a firefighter drone gathers information about hitting hot spots with the help of thermal sensors and provides the information to firefighters. Footage or scenes captured by a firefighter drone is converted into a 3D map that allows civil authorities to determine the extent of the damage after the incident and verify damage claims by insurance companies."  Active companies in the markets this week include: Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO) (CSE: DPRO), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS), Boeing (NYSE: BA), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA).

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  • Several benefits associated with firefighting drones to prevent fire damages is expected to drive the market growth over the forecast period.
  • As per Cognitive Market Research's latest published report , the Global Firefighting Drone market size was $1.31 Billion in 2022 and it is forecasted to reach $2.76 Billion by 2030.
  • Firefighting Drone Industry's Compound Annual Growth Rate will be 9.8% from 2023 to 2030.
  • In 2022, North America dominated the firefighting drone market and gained the largest market share of 40.5%.