Here, we’ll have one of the most important scientific projects of all time, with contributions from so many experts. Those simulators became the foundations for modern 3D video games, from virtual reality simulations to fighter jet games. This reminds me of “dual use” technologies that were once developed for the military, like the original 3D simulators that trained soldiers how drive tanks or fly jets. I have always wondered how ambitious companies are going to build something like the metaverse, and now I see that some things are more important to simulate, and if we accomplish those things, we’ll get a very special bonus in the form of a replica of the Earth, which we can use as a jumping point for our imaginations to build our own versions of the metaverse. The game developers can use that for their own purposes and use the Omniverse as the free foundation for whatever they want to build for entertainment purposes. Nvidia is going to build this version of the world anyway.

As Richard Kerris, head of development at Omniverse, told me in an interview, game developers will want a lot of the world to operate fast so people can move at a lightning 60 frames per second, and he noted that some of the details of the world would be too fine-grained for that purpose.īut this is the thing. It’s going to be a huge mission, and Nvidia can justify finding the funding sources and expertise necessary to take on climate change as a problem by building out this Omniverse, which could replicate a lot of the details of the Earth that game developers and other metaverse developers would need to create their own virtual worlds, like a replica of New York City that we could use in a game.įor sure, some of the details are going to be different. Then I asked him, “If you build this digital twin of the Earth, do you get the metaverse for free.”Īnd he said, “If we build the digital twin of the Earth, we will get the metaverse for free.” And so I went up to Huang afterward and I took a selfie with him. It hit me that if Nvidia builds this physically accurate world in the Omniverse, that would be the equivalent of a real world metaverse. It’s going to bring some of the brightest computer scientists, the brightest physical scientists and climate scientists on the planet to go and use that computer to predict” how the Earth will change over decades. This is going to be the largest AI supercomputer on the planet.

And last night, he added, “We’re going to go build that digital twin of the Earth.

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