Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected

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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has been speaking about the metaverse for years. It does not have a lot to do with the company’s revenues, which are generated by AI and graphics chips sales and reached $6.51 billion in the most current quarter.

But Huang likes to inspire his engineers with the notion that their AI advances and graphics innovations will one day bring us the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. Huang has stated that “we’re living in science fiction,” offered all of technology’s advances made achievable by Moore’s Law advances and accompanying software program updates.

I like this stuff. But it shocked me when a economic analyst asked Huang in an earnings contact about the metaverse and Nvidia’s version of it, the Omniverse. I joked with Huang about no matter whether the Omniverse or cryptocurrency mining is more accountable for Nvidia’s earnings. The truth is of course considerably more mundane, as it is graphics and AI chips that make the sales. But the inspiration is vital, and hearing Huang’s views on the future is just as exciting, or likely more so, than speaking about the newest quarterly news.

Huang was chosen by his peers to acquire the semiconductor industry’s greatest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award at the upcoming Semiconductor Industry Association in November. I spoke with him about the metaverse and a couple of other subjects this week. And FYI, we’re going to have yet another GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse occasion in January.

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Here’s an edited transcript of our interview.

Image Credit: Nvidia

GamesBeat: Congratulations on your [Robert N.] Noyce award.

Jensen Huang: Well thank you really considerably. But I was going to congratulate you for coming up with that best phrase, the “metaverse for engineers.” I inform people today this all the time that you can say all the proper items but the potential to distill anything down to just one single phrase and it captures the complete essence of it is just so amazing. You did it. Metaverse for engineers.

[I think that came from an interview I did with Omniverse guru Richard Kerris of Nvidia, and I can’t remember who actually said it first].

GamesBeat: I’ve been waiting for the day when the analysts had been going to ask you about the metaverse. I do not assume they’ve completed that ahead of.

Jensen Huang: Ha. I know! I was in fact type of shocked by it. I was going to say anything at the finish anyway, for the reason that it is one of the most vital items we’re undertaking. It’s a tiny bit like the starting of the online. People didn’t realize it then. Nobody had spent that considerably time with it. Time proved otherwise. The similar factor is going to occur to the metaverse and to Omniverse.

A lot of people today assume that–when you say “metaverse,” they consider placing on VR headsets, but it is clearly not just that. You can do that, but you can also delight in it in 2D. One of my favored strategies of enjoying the metaverse is a entire bunch of robots in the metaverse undertaking work and communicating with robots that are outdoors in the physical world. The only factor that is coming via is just ones and zeroes and messages. The physical world and the metaverse can be connected in a lot of distinct strategies. It does not just have to be humans. It can be machine to machine.

GamesBeat: Well, we’re going to have yet another metaverse conference in January.

Huang: We’ll have fantastic items to show by then.

Nvidia's Omniverse is a way to collaborate in simulated worlds.

Image Credit: Nvidia

GamesBeat: Now that the Blender neighborhood has come in, I wonder if there’s a porous line there in between the engineering side of the metaverse and Omniverse, and then the customer side as properly.

Huang: When I assume about Omniverse, I see it as a metaverse for engineers and designers. It’s connected to customer metaverses. It’s porous in that way. But the query is–just as with the online, you can have customer web sites, industrial web sites, enterprise web sites. They can be connected in some way. I see it really considerably the similar way. But the key use of Omniverse, I assume, is going to be for digital artists who are undertaking items that are fairly fantastic, exactly where they have to have a lot of technologies to do it. Everything has to be simulated from scratch, for the reason that building it is otherwise also challenging. And industrial use. That’s exactly where I see our robust base today.

GamesBeat: I have a bit of a trick query. Does the Omniverse or cryptocurrency have more to do with your superior quarterly economic final results?

Huang: Heh. Neither! As you know, our final results are driven by, quantity one, artificial intelligence. Deep understanding moving from study into applied engineering–when it is getting deployed, the deep understanding models are so intensive on computing that accelerating with our GPUs is the proper method. We’re seeing really massive-scale deployment, scale-out, and scale-up of deep understanding AI models.

The second driver is the one that you and I adore, that is truly close to our heart, which is gaming, and all the derivative markets related with gaming like digital art and computer system graphics for workstations. It’s all derivative from that. So the very first one is AI and the second is RTX. It’s reset about 20 years of computer system graphics and 20 years of Nvidia’s installed base. We have to upgrade a fair quantity of people today into the world of RTX, no matter whether they’re gamers or designers, or artists.

BMW Group is using Omniverse to build a digital factory that will mirror a real-world place.

Image Credit: Nvidia

The third is autonomous systems. The reality is that almost everything that moves will be autonomous. Planes, trains, automobiles, trucks, shuttles, last-mile delivery, choose-and-placers. Entire retail shops will be autonomous. They’ll even drive about. A retail shop will show up at your door, a robotic retail shop. Logistics warehouses–even buildings will be autonomous. The world of autonomous machines is going via extraordinary excitement. The quantity of robotics startups we work with all more than the world is in the hundreds.

It’s these 3 dynamics: AI services and AI applications, [GeForce] RTX and raytracing, and then autonomous machines. And then hopefully they’ll all meet in Omniverse, which I truly think. It’s all going to converge in Omniverse. That’s exactly where all this work that we do will be developed and tested and simulated and deployed.

GamesBeat: Is gaming demand the challenge, or is it nevertheless some type of element shortage?

Huang: Our problem is that all round RTX demand is truly, truly higher. We just announced that our workstation business–this is an business, a company that is been about for 35 years, 40 years. We just had a record quarter and a record quarter by a lot. Our gaming company is developing fantastically, and now people today are working on cloud graphics for workstation applications, Computer, and gaming. Graphics is going into the cloud. All 3 of these are undertaking properly. I assume we’re going to be demand constrained for some time.


Originally appeared on: TheSpuzz

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