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Today, digital experiences in 3D design have become critical for businesses to succeed.
Whether it’s improving customer engagement, increasing market opportunities, collaborating or supporting workforce services — managing hybrid experiences is becoming a top priority for every CIO especially those whose business incorporates 3D design into their workflows.
Across industries, CIOs are looking for scalable and secure technologies that will help support employees working in this new environment without impacting productivity. To maintain employee productivity and creativity, and to help enhance their existing 3D workflows, IT leaders need to rise to the challenge of supporting these remote and hybrid workforces without compromising business objectives.
Companies relying on 3D production pipelines must build real-time connectivity for individuals and teams, their existing 3D design applications, asset and project libraries without disrupting current workflows.
Virtual worlds will shape the future of the hybrid workplace in three important ways.
Improved 3D Design Collaboration
Years ago, interactive collaboration in creative workflows used to come with significant challenges. But today, real-time collaboration in 3D design is becoming a reality, allowing people to create rich virtual worlds to capture realistic environments and 3D assets. And these virtual worlds can help remote teams enhance collaborative and iterative 3D workflows.
A shared virtual space allows people to interact and simultaneously collaborate in one environment, so they can see each other’s updates and changes to 3D models in real time. This improves design workflows as it reduces the amount of importing and exporting data to each other, and eliminates the need for constant iterations. Instead, everyone can see all the changes as they happen, resulting in a more seamless creative workflow.
Securing and Managing Data From One Place
From digital twins to building designs, global teams work with massive amounts of 3D data. Enterprises need a centralized location to store all this data, so the teams can easily access it whenever they need to.
Having a secure location for managing and storing assets will immensely help hybrid workers, as they can access 3D data and work on projects from any location. Whether they’re working at the office, on site or from home, universal asset managers and collaboration engines are essential to make this happen.
Enhancing Remote Productivity and Communication
The need for people to connect by using technology has never been greater. On average, eight percent of workforces regularly worked remotely before 2020. But this average has now grown to 27 percent during the pandemic, according to a joint MIT and VMware global executive study.
But the increasing number of remote workers doesn’t mean designers and creators have to struggle with maintaining productivity and connections. Enabling 3D design collaboration will help design teams from all over the world address the challenge of working flexibly. People will be able to connect and collaborate together on 3D designs and projects, even if virtually, no matter where they’re located.
The Future of Hybrid Work
CIOs can help their companies prepare for the hybrid workforces with NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise, a real-time 3D design collaboration platform that provides businesses with the ability to connect and accelerate existing 3D design workflows.
Omniverse Enterprise was built to enhance 3D design workflows for businesses, and was developed with the needs of disparate teams in mind. With the platform, teams can push creative boundaries by extending their existing tools and workflows. Design teams can use leading industry software applications such as such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya Revit, Trimble SketchUp, Unreal Engine and McNeel and Associates Rhino with Grasshopper —aggregating their datasets into a shared virtual scene – an Omniverse virtual world. By connecting these existing workflows, teams can achieve faster time to production, operational efficiencies, new heights of creativity, and less time wasted on tedious export-import between applications.
Hybrid workers and 3D design teams can use Omniverse Enterprise to collaborate more efficiently and productively, as they can work together simultaneously on projects in one virtual space.
Omniverse Enterprise enables enterprise teams to access collaboration from anywhere, whether workstation workgroups working locally, or virtualized from the data center, at home, or in the office. With NVIDIA Omniverse XR Remote built on the NVIDIA CloudXR streaming SDK, users can stream immersive, ray-traced AR and virtual camera content directly from a user’s desktop to any device, including iPads and smartphones.
If you’d like to explore real-time 3D design collaboration, try Omniverse Enterprise free for 30 days.
Learn more about NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise and how companies are enhancing hybrid work.
