NVIDIA announces NeuralVDB
Aug 11, 2022 by CGPress Staff
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NVIDIA has announced the next step in the evolution of the OpenVDB project. NeuralVDB promises GPU-accelerated volumetric data representations at a massive scale, with claims of more than 100x memory footprint reduction thanks to machine learning. Find out more on the NVIDIA website.
The corporate cynic in me is skeptical. I hope this isn’t a case where Nvidia is trying to co-opt a successful open standard, open vdb, into a proprietary format which is, conveniently for them, optimized for their hardware only. If this tech is so wonderful, why not present it to open vdb for consideration to be adopted as part of the open standard?
you are not cynical you are realist
You have the open standard, if Nvidia improves the standard to play better in their system it is the jobs of others to compete.