Omniverse Kit Kernel - Feature Branch

NVIDIA Omniverse Kit™ is a toolkit for building native Omniverse applications and microservices. It is built on a base framework known as Carbonite that provides a wide variety of functionality through a set of light-weight plugins. Carbonite plugins are all authored with C interfaces for persistent ABI compatibility. A Python interpreter is provided for scripting and customization.

Omniverse Kit is designed to be the premiere foundation for new Omniverse-connected tools and microservices. It can be run headless to create a microservice, or with a UI. The UI is generated dynamically with Python allowing full customization. Omniverse Kit native UI widgets are written with Dear Imgui.

Omniverse Kit comes with a default UI that allows it to act as a USD inspector, editor, layout tool and viewer. Customized UI’s may look nothing like the default. NVIDIA expects to ship sets of customizations that are more appropriate to specific target industries and user communities.

Omniverse Kit based applications built with UI can provide rendering windows. The standard rendering interface for applications using USD is part of the USD distribution and known as Hydra. Any Hydra-compliant renderer can be connected to a Omniverse Kit rendering window. Available Hydra-compliant renderers include NVIDIA’s Omniverse Omniverse RTX Renderer, AMD’s ProRender and Intel’s OspRay.

Container information

This container provides a base container containing a slimmed down version of the Omniverse Kit SDK. It contains only the essentials to run the Kit runtime. As a base container, users are expected to build on top of this container by pulling in the required extensions.

It comes bundled with 2 startup scripts.

• startup.sh: Allows to run the Kit SDK with GPUs enabled and will require the --gpus flag to be able to run when running from Docker
• startup_nogpu.sh: Allows to run the Kit SDK without GPUs, for none GPU workloads.

License

Use of Omniverse Kit is covered under the NVIDIA Omniverse License Agreement.

Suggested readings

• Release Notes
• Documentation
• Python SDK
• NVIDIA Forums