NVIDIA enters the AI Omniverse Avatars Genre for the virtual world

According to PR NewsWire, the market size of digital human-AI avatars was USD 10.03 billion in 2020 & it’s projected to reach USD 527.58 billion by 2030. Maybe, it sounds unrealistic to those who haven’t tried this particular tech segment yet but yes, it’s absolutely possible for those using AI-powered avatars to impart human-like digital interactions to their customers or users.?

Thanks to the evolution of deep learning & artificial intelligence that paved the way for the development of digital human avatars that are smart, responsive, & interactive like humans. And not just one, we’ve got many AI avatars from industry giants including Samsung, Soul Machines, Uneeq, Telspin, Oben, The AI Foundation, The IncLab, & more.??

However, the introduction of NVIDIA AI avatars has been creating headlines in the technology sphere. But why? What's the reason?

To resolve your queries & for your information, we've got this blog on NVIDIA AI avatars.?

Let's start with a quick brief on AI Avatars.

What are AI avatars??

AI avatars are also referred to as digital avatars in technical terms. They're human-like bots that are powered by AI technology & are used to build human interactions.

These AI-powered Avatars also use Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to communicate with people.?

Modern digital avatars have a humanoid appearance & they're structured in the form of 3D models. Such AI avatars are like digital twins to humans, they are more realistic, responsive, & interactive than humans.?

Most companies are now integrating these AI-powered Avatars into their chatbot systems as customers are most likely to respond favorably to the human face rather than a Robo-like chatbot.?

Thanks to the deep learning capabilities that raised the level of interactivity with pinpoint resemblance of human-like behavior & gestures of NVIDIA AI avatars.?

Why are the NVIDIA AI Avatars popular now?

The CEO of NVIDIA wants everyone to have a digital twin.?=

While announcing the launch of NVIDIA AI avatars during the NVIDIA GTX conference, the founder of the company Jenson Huang introduced 65 new & latest SDKs that will be used for self-driving or automated vehicles, cybersecurity & cloud computing solutions, advanced robotics, & highly conversational and interactive AI avatars.

NVIDIA observes their Omniverse Avatar platform for a wide array of industrial domains such as food, banking, and eCommerce are among them.

NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar is the very first platform that can be used to construct a real-time conversational AI avatar with capabilities to see, respond, & interact on various subjects and understand your thoughts as you connect with them.?

According to research by VC connect,? Avatar startups Uneeq and AI Foundation together raised $10 million in 2018, whereas Soul Machines generated a revenue sum of $40 million in January 2020 in their Series B round.?

Moreover, it has been noticed that entertainment firms are adapting AI avatars at a rapid pace. Just like a gaming company Roblox acquired a renowned digital avatar company i.e loom.ai in December 2020.

If we talk about NVIDIA AI avatars, they're derived from OMNIVERSE, which means a universe that is spatiotemporally four-dimensional.

Now the question comes to why NVIDIA AI avatars are popular these days? Here are a few pointers to define the answer:

• NVIDIA AI avatars are one step further than other AI avatars & ordinary bots. The reality is that humans feel more comfortable & friendly while interacting with these human-like beings.?

Both the academic and business world have proof supporting that avatars can improve customer satisfaction and enhance sales.

• NVIDIA's easy-to-build AI avatars are more realistic than other alternatives. It's not rocket science to create an NVIDIA avatar as you don't need any expertise, specialized equipment, or workflow-intensive procedure to do it.?

It comes with a set of AI-enabled toolsets that help you create realistic AI avatars quickly & effortlessly through accelerated rendering, and simulation technology.

• NVIDIA AI avatar delivers ultra-realistic results with the Avatar rendering process. It uses amazing fidelity & quality backed by scalable, fast, & extra realistic path-traced shading, driven by Omniverse RTX Renderer.?

The avatars built on NVIDIA feature life-like facial and body animation, and natural emotion, and human-like behavior, that can be automatically generated with the help of inputs & audio tracks.

• The deployment process of digital AI avatars on platforms like NVIDIA is too flexible & transparent. No matter if you want it in real-time or for offline purposes, NVIDIA's Omniverse Avatar framework enables you to freely develop and deploy your Avatar depending on your use case.
• NVIDIA entered the world of Omniverse avatar that seemingly beats other existing AI avatars including Deep brain, AI Foundation, Soul Machines, etc in terms of user engagement & realistic virtual interactions.
• At present, the existing reach of the omniverse avatar market is constantly expanding due to its amalgamation with the Nvidia Omniverse which comprises more than 70,000 individual creators.?

Interestingly, more than 700 companies, from BMW Group to Epigraph, Ericsson, and Sony Pictures Animation are currently using NVIDIA'S AI avatars to boost their digital experiences in the Omniverse.

• AI-powered digital avatars like NVIDIA are well-defined to impart meaningful interactions in the Omniverse using Megatron 530B Large Language Model.?

The latter comes as a pre-trained model that severs avatars with the ability to identify, understand, and interact in human language.

• This language model enables avatars to answer questions on different subjects, giving them the ability to summarize complex stories into short formats, identify speeches in multiple languages, and then translate them, so they can provide information that human users cannot access at the moment.

NVIDIA's Immersive AI Avatars in action

The highlights from NVIDIA'S announcement address a keynote from Huang’s speech at Nvidia’s GTC event, where he mentioned the exceptional capabilities of Nvidia AI software & its automated generated language model Megatron-Turing NLG 530B within two demonstrations.

In the first phase of the demonstration, Huang initiated a real-time conversation with a digitized & toy version of himself using the NVIDIA avatar, where he conversed about health care diagnosis, climate science, & other technological processes.?

Then, Huang demoed a customer-service avatar working in a restaurant kiosk that could see and interact with two people simultaneously as they ordered vegetarian burgers, fries, and drinks.

Many other providers like Soul Machines have attempted to create humanlike avatars as NVIDIA introduced and struggled to mitigate the uncanny valley effect, where realistic avatars provoke a sense of uneasiness in users. Nvidia dealt with this by embracing a lighthearted cartoonish aesthetic that’s less likely to unsettle users in the Omniverse.

Yet, while the initial demos in the keynote demonstration look promising, it remains to be seen how engaging Nvidia Omniverse Avatars are when they’re in a real customer-facing environment in a virtual world, working with human beings who have high expectations.

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