NVIDIA NCore: The Open-Source Data Format That Could End Sensor-Data Chaos in Physical AI

NVIDIA quietly open-sourced NCore — a canonical data format for cameras, LiDAR, radar, poses, calibrations, and labels. Its new .itar storage streams from S3 with 240ms time-to-first-read, ~36× faster than Parquet. Already powers NuRec, 3DGRUT, and gsplat.