Nate Bradford

Nate Bradford leads design and simulation content production and strategy at NVIDIA. With a background in developer tools and frameworks, he specializes in creating educational resources to enable developers leveraging synthetic data, building generative AI tools, and creating digital twin solutions with OpenUSD.
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Posts by Nate Bradford

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Simulation / Modeling / Design Oct 07, 2024

Producing Cinematic Content at Scale with a Generative AI-Enabled OpenUSD Pipeline

Producing commercials is resource-intensive, requiring physical locations and various props and setups to display products in different settings and... 7 MIN READ
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Simulation / Modeling / Design Jun 26, 2024

Transforming Microsoft XLS and PPT Files into a Factory Digital Twin with OpenUSD

SyncTwin GmbH, a company that builds software to optimize production, intralogistics, and assembly, is on a mission to unlock industrial digital twins for small... 7 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design May 31, 2024

How to Train an Object Detection Model for Visual Inspection with Synthetic Data

AI is rapidly changing industrial visual inspection. In a factory setting, visual inspection is used for many issues, including detecting defects and missing or... 8 MIN READ
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Simulation / Modeling / Design Feb 29, 2024

Top Synthetic Data Generation Sessions at NVIDIA GTC 2024

Learn how synthetic data is supercharging 3D simulation and computer vision workflows, from visual inspection to autonomous machines. 1 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Feb 29, 2024

Video Series: Getting Started with Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)

Gain a foundational understanding of USD, the open and extensible framework for creating, editing, querying, rendering, collaborating, and simulating within 3D... 1 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Feb 21, 2024

Podcast: NVIDIA and the Future of 3D Development with Aaron Luk

Discover why OpenUSD is central to the future of 3D development with Aaron Luk, a founding developer of Universal Scene Description. 1 MIN READ