Volvo Teams Up With Epic Games To Create Real-Time Realistic In-Car Interface

VOLVO Automotive announced today that it has partnered with Epic Games, a well-known game maker, to create an infotainment system on the next-generation new electric flagship model through its virtual engine with powerful real-time computing capabilities, providing car owners with an unprecedented visual experience.

Epic Games is a world-renowned interactive entertainment and software development company that delights players with the world‘s largest Fortnite game. 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.

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 step that VOLVO R&D personnel have pushed to optimize. 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 graphics and infotainment systems of the next VOLVO cars will be even more advanced!

Henrik Green, head of VOLVO automotive products, said: “In order to provide the best and safest driving experience, we need to design more functional and immersive visual presentations with instant response capabilities inside the car. Do this and make the ride in the car more enjoyable.” Heiko Wenczel, Director of Automotive and Human Machine Interface Virtual Engine at Epic Games, also said: “When we apply the interactive high-resolution real-time graphics technology to the in-vehicle system After that, car owners will be able to open the door to receiving information and entertainment in new ways. Volvo Cars’ talented design and product development team seized this opportunity to do something new and continue to develop exciting advanced features through the virtual engine.”

The first interface created using the virtual engine will be used in the next-generation Volvo 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 in software development, hoping to develop more and more pioneering in-vehicle application software in the future.

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