Reporter Zhong Zhaozhen/Comprehensive Report
▲VOLVO teamed up with Epic Games to create a realistic car interface. (Photo / provided by VOLVO)
VOLVO Automobile announced that it has cooperated with Epic Games, a well-known game manufacturer, to create the infotainment system on the next-generation new electric flagship model through its virtual engine with powerful real-time computing power, providing car owners with an unprecedented visual experience.
▲VOLVO Auto announced its cooperation with Epic Games, a well-known game maker. (Photo / provided by VOLVO)
Epic Games is a world-renowned interactive entertainment and software development company. Players enjoy the world‘s largest Fortnite game. The virtual engine developed by the company is recognized as the most advanced real-time 3D image creation tool, while VOLVO The car will become the first luxury car manufacturer to use a virtual engine to develop an in-vehicle infotainment system interface with real-time graphics capabilities. In the future, it will provide car owners with higher-level in-vehicle infotainment functions.
▲VOLVO will provide car owners with more advanced in-vehicle infotainment functions. (Photo / provided by VOLVO)
On the next-generation VOLVO models, car owners will see impressive high-quality images on the display screen, with clearer picture quality and richer colors, and this new 3D animation is only the first optimization that VOLVO R&D staff promotes. Further, with the high-performance computing power of the virtual engine and the third-generation Snapdragon Cockpit platform, the response speed of the new-generation VOLVO in-vehicle infotainment system will be more than twice that of the existing one, and the graphics generation and processing speed will be increased ten times, which means the following The graphics and infotainment systems of a first-generation Volvo will be more advanced.
The first interface created using the virtual engine will be used in the next generation of Volvo’s new electric flagship model. Gradually achieve the goal of becoming a luxury electric vehicle brand by 2030; at the same time, VOLVO will recruit a large number of professionals for software development, hoping to develop more and more innovative in-vehicle application software in the future.