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Learn more about breakthrough NVIDIA technologies and dive into our expansive selection of graphics and simulation sessions.

Our GTC Fall 2020 virtual event featured a record breaking number of sessions, podcasts, demos, research posters, and more. We are now opening access to all the great content shared at the conference through the new NVIDIA On-Demand catalog. Learn more about breakthrough NVIDIA technologies and dive into our expansive selection of graphics and simulation sessions.

Ampere Architecture

The launch of our new Ampere architecture was a long anticipated event of this year. Designed for the age of elastic computing, it delivers the next giant leap by providing unmatched acceleration at every scale, enabling these innovators to do their life’s work. Learn about the architecture and its benefits with these sessions:

NVIDIA Ampere for Professional Workflows: Learn about these new GPUs for professional visual computing and how they provide the power of the next generation of RTX from the desktop to the data center.

Rendering at the Speed of Light on NVIDIA Ampere GPUs: Explore hardware improvements over the previous generation, best practices for application developers, and tooling improvements that will help you write high-performance graphics code.

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Graphics and Simulation

Discover new pipelines and tools that are emerging in the graphics industry, and learn how professionals are using the newest technologies to enhance content creation.

Rendering Games With Millions of Ray-Traced Lights: Hear from NVIDIA experts to learn about the latest research in the area of many-light sampling, plus implications of many-light rendering on game content creation pipelines.

Bringing Ray-Traced Visualization to Collaborative Workflows: Omniverse XR: See how augmented reality is integrated within the Omniverse rendering pipeline, and how Omniverse AR is applied across a range of use cases. Plus, get an inside look at the different strategies created in Omniverse Kit to bring its ray tracing engine to virtual reality.

What’s New in Optix 7.2: Learn strategies to achieve optimal ray tracing performance with OptiX 7.2.

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Extended Reality (XR)

Learn about the advanced tools that help create high-quality immersive environments, and see why virtual and augmented reality are one of the most anticipated forms of content to arrive over 5G networks.

AR and VR Graphics Technologies at NVIDIA: Get an overview of XR graphics technologies from NVIDIA, including our latest tools and SDKs.

Streaming XR Over 5G Changing the Way We Learn, Work, and Play: Explore current VR and AR hardware limitations, and see some of The Grid Factory’s achievements leveraging NVIDIA CloudXR and 5G.

Photorealistic Mixed-reality Solutions that Merge Virtual Content with Their Real-world Challenges: Learn how to create a new kind of immersive design, simulation, or training experience with the power of NVIDIA Quadro GPUs, Varjo virtual- and mixed-reality headsets, and Lenovo workstations.

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Industry Technology Trends

From asset creation to RTX acceleration, check out the innovative techniques that are transforming the future of graphic workflows across all industries. 

Virtual Production with Cine Tracer: Hear how live action cinematographer Matt Workman has created a previsualization and virtual production app for the film industry using Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine + RTX from a Filmmaker’s Perspective: See how today’s real-time tools with RTX power can enable indie filmmakers to tell high-concept stories without huge budgets, resources, and a big rendering farm.

Real-Time and Production Ray Tracing with V-Ray: Learn about advances in real-time ray tracing and production rendering for V-Ray workflows, including RTX acceleration and the use of CUDA, DXR, and OptiX.

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It can take a puppy weeks to learn that certain kinds of behaviors will result in a yummy treat, extra cuddles or a belly rub — and that other behaviors won’t. With a system of positive reinforcement, a pet pooch will in time anticipate that chasing squirrels is less likely to be rewarded than staying Read article >

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Whether talking with banks, cell phone providers or insurance companies, customers often encounter AI-powered voice interfaces to direct their calls to the right department. But these interfaces typically are limited to understanding certain keywords. Onvego, an Israel-based startup, is working to make these systems understand what you say, no matter how you say it. Before Read article >

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Anima Anandkumar is setting a personal record this week with seven of her team’s research papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020. The 34th annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference is taking place virtually from Dec. 6-12. The premier event on neural networks, NeurIPS draws thousands of the world’s best researchers every year. Anandkumar, NVIDIA’s director of Read article >

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Bill Dally — one of the world’s foremost computer scientists and head of NVIDIA’s research efforts — will deliver the keynote address during GTC China, the latest event in the world’s premier conference series focused on AI, deep learning and high performance computing. Registration is not required to view the keynote, which will take place Read article >

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AI is the largest technology force of our time, with the most potential to transform industries. It will bring new intelligence to healthcare, education, automotive, retail and finance, creating trillions of dollars in a new AI economy. As businesses look ahead to 2021 priorities, now’s a great time to look back at where the world Read article >

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What are the fundamental laws that govern our universe? How did the matter in the universe today get there? What exactly is dark matter? The questions may be eternal, but no human scientist has an eternity to answer them. Now, thanks to NVIDIA technology and cutting-edge AI, the more than 1,000 collaborators from 26 countries Read article >

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NVIDIA Research’s latest AI model is a prodigy among generative adversarial networks. Using a fraction of the study material needed by a typical GAN, it can learn skills as complex as emulating renowned painters and recreating images of cancer tissue. By applying a breakthrough neural network training technique to the popular NVIDIA StyleGAN2 model, NVIDIA Read article >

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Academic researchers are developing AI to solve challenging problems with everything from agricultural robotics to autonomous flying machines. To help AI research like this make the leap from academia to commercial or government deployment, NVIDIA today announced the Applied Research Accelerator Program. The program supports applied research on NVIDIA platforms for GPU-accelerated application deployments. The Read article >

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Swedish startup Einride has rejigged the big rig for highways around the world. The autonomous truck maker launched the next generation of its cab-less autonomous truck, known as the Pod, with new, advanced functionality and pricing. The AI vehicles, which will be commercially available worldwide, will be powered by the latest in high-performance, energy-efficient compute Read article >

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