$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$A New Frontier in the Metaverse

Just recently, two examples of Nvidia's drive to innovate came to the fore. The first is a blog post describing Sensory's use of hybrid computing, which uses both cloud-based and on-premises computing resources. Hybrid computing helps Sensory bring interactivity to many types of voice-enabled electronics, from wearables to refrigerators and microwave ovens.

Of course, this couldn't be accomplished without the right hardware, and Nvidia is glad to provide it. To that end, some of Sensory's recently introduced AI-embedded voice and vision applications "rely on NVIDIA NeMo — a toolkit to build state-of-the-art conversational AI models — and Triton Inference Server for its Sensory Cloud hybrid computing unit."

Meanwhile, Nvidia has a powerful partner in Siemens as the two companies seek to build out a particular, real-life area of the metaverse. We can call it the industrial metaverse, where physics-based digital twins can help engineering teams tackle tough manufacturing-industry problems.

According to the press release, the two companies "plan to connect Siemens Xcelerator, the open digital business platform, and NVIDIA Omniverse… a platform for 3D design and collaboration." This way, Nvidia can combine its real-time AI with Siemens' physics-based digital models, and thereby combine the best of both worlds – physical and digital.