The pandemic has sped up a lot of technologies that have laid dormant for a period of time. Certain technologies that were once locked away in a lab are now becoming mainstream because the environment fosters them.
It’s not a mistake why Facebook wants to change its name to Meta which represents the MetaVerse. A new sort of digital realm where we all will be entangled in. These ideas were always there, there have been fast starts from various tech companies who had hoped to capitalize on this new space but they all fell short.
As people are now working at home and looking for new experiences. It might be a viable time to reinvest within this new space. That is exactly what Nvidia is doing. They announced a new platform to create virtual agents called Omniverse Avatar.
The platform is a combination of various “buzzword” technologies such as speech recognition, facial tracking, synthetic speech, and 3D avatar animation.
At Nvidia’s annual GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang showcased features of what is to come. One of them was an animated character in a digital kiosk that is having conversations with a couple in a restaurant setting. It also uses facial technology to maintain eye contact with the customers and respond to facial expressions.
Overall, these technologies will be part of their vision of capitalizing on the coming wave of virtual reality. It remains to be seen how it will unfold in the future.
