How to Bring 3D Design Teams Together… Remotely

New technologies to improve collaboration are transforming three-dimensional (3D) design and accelerating content creation. In the past, the motion picture industry required years of work by hundreds, if not thousands, of visual effects (VFX) artists to create a single 3D movie. In the case of 2009 avatar, 900+ VFX Artists sSeparate design teams spent three years creating otherworldly flora, fauna, humans, aliens, and machines.

Although 3D design technologies have since matured, many tools used by today’s design teams lack interoperability. Heavy 3D production pipelines are becoming increasingly complex as artists, designers, engineers, and researchers integrate technologies such as global illumination, real-time ray tracing, AI, computing, and engineering simulation into their daily workflow. These challenges are exacerbated by a growing, diverse, and increasingly distributed or hybrid design workforce grappling with laborious workflows and rising expectations for physically accurate, photorealistic simulations.

Enter Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Purpose-built VDI environments for 3D design enable authorized users to securely access a desktop environment from anywhere with the digital tools they need to do their jobs. The result is real-time collaboration between distributed teams, more design iterations for higher-quality work, and faster production.

Enable immersive visualization and accurate simulation

VDI is built for speed, collaboration, and tight security from cyber threats from the data center to the endpoint. And it’s already revolutionizing 3D workflows across industries. Even before the pandemic and social distancing, the VDI market was growing. A recent study predicts a staggering compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 20% between 2022 and 2030, when the global VDI market will be worth over $78 billion.

VDI connects design teams on a single, interactive platform powered by powerful servers and virtualized GPUs. Teams can do their best work in a shared virtual space integrated with leading design, animation, and visual effects software. Developers, designers, researchers, and engineers can collaborate from anywhere, on any device, without the hassle of importing and exporting huge files.

Workflows are simplified with near-instantaneous updates, iterations, and changes without the need for data preparation. Real-time application interoperability allows infinite iterations at no additional cost. Design teams are empowered to take creative risks to reach new heights of quality and innovation with faster time-to-market.

VDI for 3D design

Giving a geographically dispersed team access to high-performance computing power in a way that allows collaboration without compromising security is no easy task. However, to remain competitive and retain top talent, companies have no choice but to provide a virtual platform that enables designers and reviewers to collaborate in real time across leading software applications in shared 3D virtual worlds from anywhere.

Dell Technologies and NVIDIA work together to deliver a powerful GPU-accelerated VDI solution available anywhere for collaborative immersive 3D design workflows. Dell Validated Design for VDI with NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise transforms complex design workflows for businesses of all sizes and 3D projects of all scales. VDI helps streamline the deployment, protection, and management of 3D collaboration applications for remote workers. NVIDIA Omniverse™ software on Dell hyper-converged infrastructure provides a reliable and repeatable foundation for remote 3D graphics. The solution brings teams, assets, and software tools together in a shared virtual space, allowing different workgroups to collaborate on a single project file at the same time.

3D design collaboration across industries

3D workflows are an essential part of every industry today. Everything that is built is first designed and simulated in virtual worlds. Here are some of the ways diverse teams from different industries are using a shared virtual space with VDI to revolutionize 3D design workflows.

• Media & Entertainment: Content creators can use VDI to work in real-time with a variety of industry-standard applications, merging internal and external tool pipelines from multiple studios, allowing multiple collaborators to collaborate, render final shots in real-time, and create massive virtual sets.
• Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO): Construction planning products can be handled location-independent. For example, the VDI environment can be used to create a digital twin to simulate a construction project and then monitor and optimize it throughout its lifecycle for maximum efficiency, quality and cost savings.
• Manufacturing: Geographically distributed design and engineering teams, as well as external contractors and suppliers, can seamlessly connect and collaborate throughout the production design process, from early-stage ideation to smart factory automation and robotics workflows.

VDI offers enhanced collaboration between innovators in nearly every industry. Learn more about how Dell Technologies and NVIDIA enable remote 3D design with Dell Validated Design for VDI with NVIDIA Omniverse.

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