In the rush to build metaverse assets, turning 2D images into 3D forms is increasingly paramount. NVIDIA has a new technology to help with the process.
NVIDIA has showcased an impressive tech that turns a set of flat,2D images into 3D renders. The company is calling it Instant NeRF, an upgraded version of the NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) tech that has been making waves in the industry lately. NVIDIA claims that its product deploys an AI that takes mere seconds for training and can turn a bunch of still photos into 360-degree work almost instantly. In fact, the company claims to have achieved a 1,000x higher performance gain in some scenarios. The whole process of turning 2D photos into 3D is based on a technique called inverse rendering, which does its job by guessing how light interacts with objects in real life. A NeRF system uses a neural network to predict the colors of light movement in each direction from any given point in space.
