In order to bring consumers the best safe and personalized experience and driving pleasure, Volvo announced to cooperate with Epic Games, the well-known Fortnite developer, to apply Epic’s new generation of “Unreal Engine 5” game engine in the development of high-definition and more realistic games. Visual HMI human-machine interface. The interface is expected to be fully equipped on Volvo’s new all-electric flagship models to be launched later this year. The two cooperation also wrote a new page in the history of the combination of car engine and game engine.
Volvo is expected to unveil its first new-generation fully automatic flagship later this year, a first step towards its goal of selling only pure electric cars by 2030. This European car maker needs to create a rich, immersive and responsive visual human-machine interface inside the new car to bring consumers an unparalleled user experience. Epic Games developed the “Unreal Engine 5” game engine launched this year.
This engine is a real-time 3D production tool suitable for both games and other industries, so it is not surprising that it can be selected as Volvo’s new flagship human-machine interface and driver information module (DIM) tool. Volvo thus became the first European car company to use Unreal Engine 5 for human-machine interface development.
The next-generation infotainment system for Volvo’s new flagship all-electric car is expected to combine the Unreal Engine engine with the third-generation Snapdragon cockpit platform, which will make it twice as fast as the previous-generation system, with faster in-car graphics generation and processing 10x, setting a new industry standard for the performance of in-vehicle graphical infotainment systems.
(Source of the first image: Volvo)
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