Omniverse Plugin for Daz Studio 5 - "Enterprise" Only?
bishbosch
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I just saw on the Bridges page that the Omniverse plugin is for NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, which, when I last checked, cost $9000 USD per month. Will there be a version for non-Enterprise users? To be honest though, I don't use Omniverse much as, even though I'd love to use their tools, I find their UI and sheer number of apps a mess and I think their documentation for said apps is poor.
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as someone who's income is less than that per annum, that's a bit eye watering
That is a question you need to ask the nVidia Omniverse team making that plugin directly.
It is wildly expensive, but not $9k per month. More like per YEAR. This from the Omniverse FAQ found here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/omniverse/enterprise/faq/
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How much does it cost?
NVIDIA Omniverse is free for individuals to collaborate between apps and one other person.
NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise is a new platform offering that helps businesses of any size transform their 3D production workflows. NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise is an end-to-end remote collaboration and true-to-reality simulation platform optimized and certified by NVIDIA to run on NVIDIA-Certified Systems.
The Omniverse Enterprise solution starts at $9,000 per year for a workgroup of 2 Creators, 10 Reviewers, and 4 Nucleus subscriptions.
Omniverse Enterprise includes:
Omniverse Enterprise has three subscription components:
All subscriptions include the Omniverse Enterprise Launcher, plus Omniverse Enterprise Connectors.
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Still out of reach for most of the Daz user base, which is curious to me. Most Daz users can't afford this. If you are a professional paying that much for such software, I don't see the point of using anything from Daz at all. So why does this even exist if it is exclusive to the Enterprise version?
Perhaps it is a mistake? At least give DS some USD support.
But it seems to say that it is free as long as you are just using it yourself? Or am I misunderstanding something?
Omniverse has a free version, but the Enterprise version requires a paid subscription as it is specifically for what its name says. But the Daz Bridges tab states that it the bridge coming to DS5 is for Omniverse Enterprise. That implies the subscription version.
Note it says Nvidia Omniverse is free, the word Enterprise is missing from that. Omniverse Enterprise "starts" at $9,000 per year, so those other dollar figures are extras on top of that $9k. The other strage part of this is that all of the Enterprise options target multiple seats, while typical DS users are flying solo.
The different subscriptions offer some extra features, so it might very well be that the DS bridge is one of them. But that makes no sense at all to me, other than just "Daz being Daz". Perhaps the bridge is also exclusive to PAs. After all, it may as well be if you need a sub that costs thousands per year. <.<
Some clarification on the situation from Daz-Tafi would be helpful. I know they like keeping things "close to the vest", but they are the ones advertising this bridge to Omniverse Enterprise on this website. It is logical DS users are going to have questions.
Perhaps they beta 1st to Enterprise customers. I can't imagine a business case where a DAZ Studio OMNIVerse plugin was only available to corporate enterprise customers (unless DAZ 3D have a lot of corporate contracts they never talk about publically).
it could also read we will get access to Omniverse Enterprise with DAZ Studio 5
Maybe Daz Studio 5 is going to be a combination of DS, Carrara, Bryce and Hexagon with added and updated tools and features that make Blender, ZBrush etc. outdated and useless
if so paid tiers and or subscriptions seem likely
and a render to toast, in case your toaster is connected to wifi
I could guess that NVIDIA and DAZ have some partnership that NVIDIA waved the costs for the Enterprise tier for everyone.
but yeah, either it's an worrying sign that DAZ is going to a subscription model or it's a PA only feature (yet if it was a PA only feature, why would it be advertised on a page for consumers?).
my third theory is that it's for the DAZ Enterprise users (remember that DAZ has a special license for Enterprise users).
I do wish that DAZ would have someone update their loyal and enthusiastic customers here on their own forum. What is it - over 2 years ago that someone from DAZ came on and teased us with the upcoming DS5? Well, now it seems to fall into the "soon" window so please, DAZ, a little consideration for the eager consumers.