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Mar 4, 2024

Democratizing the Industrial Metaverse with OpenUSD

In the era of smart manufacturing, the concept of a “smart factory” is revolutionizing the way we think about production and design. Elon…

Democratizing the Industrial Metaverse with OpenUSD

Michael T. Wagner

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Oct 18

Playing Video on USD Surfaces in NVIDIA Omniverse KIT and OVRTX

Video Textures in Kit 110.4 and a Standalone ovrtx Renderer

Playing Video on USD Surfaces in NVIDIA Omniverse KIT and OVRTX

Michael T. Wagner

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Oct 3

Agentic 3D-Modelling: GPT6-Astra vs Opus 5.5

Recent frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic have made significant advances in 3D modeling. I put both to the test using the same…

Agentic 3D-Modelling: GPT6-Astra vs Opus 5.5

Michael T. Wagner

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Sep 23

How to Turn a Static JT File into a SimReady Robot with AI Agents

NVIDIA’s CAD-to-SimReady skills did the materials, physics and validation. A datasheet did the joints.

How to Turn a Static JT File into a SimReady Robot with AI Agents

Michael T. Wagner

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Sep 21

How to Use OVRTX Rendering from WSL2 Containers with a Windows Wrapper

NVIDIA’s OpenUSD Content Agents render every part of your asset before a vision-language model decides its material, physics or joints…

How to Use OVRTX Rendering from WSL2 Containers with a Windows Wrapper

Michael T. Wagner

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Sep 21

How to Build a Simple OVRTX Render Service on Windows

NVIDIA’s ovrtx puts Omniverse RTX rendering into a Python package: open a USD stage, step the renderer, get a PNG. That is perfect for a…

How to Build a Simple OVRTX Render Service on Windows

Michael T. Wagner

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Apr 25

Industrial Digital Twin Semantics in OpenUSD: Bringing AAS Submodel Templates into the Scene Graph

OpenUSD is rapidly becoming the common language for industrial digital twins. The AAS Submodel Template library offers something valuable…

Industrial Digital Twin Semantics in OpenUSD: Bringing AAS Submodel Templates into the Scene Graph

Michael T. Wagner

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Apr 25

OpenUSD Is not Another 3D Format

It is a composable semantic scene graph for representing, simulating, and linking complex systems across domains. Born at Pixar, it is…

OpenUSD Is not Another 3D Format

Michael T. Wagner

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Sep 7, 2025

From Zero to Streaming Isaac Sim in 10 Minutes 🚀

Running Isaac Sim in the cloud often means wrestling with GPU drivers, configs, and networking. With NVIDIA Brev, it’s almost…

From Zero to Streaming Isaac Sim in 10 Minutes 🚀

Michael T. Wagner

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Aug 5, 2025

How To Deploy a Virtual RTX Workstation and Omniverse Kit App in 20 Minutes

Setting up a local environment for Omniverse development can be a hassle — configuring GPU drivers, installing the right software versions…

How To Deploy a Virtual RTX Workstation and Omniverse Kit App in 20 Minutes

Michael T. Wagner

Michael T. Wagner

Michael Wagner is CEO of SyncTwin GmbH, a pioneer in OpenUSD-native middleware for industrial digital twins, and an NVIDIA Omniverse Ambassador.

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