Volvo Cars and EpicGames partner to introduce visualization technology

To provide customers with the best possible user experience, Volvo Cars has partnered with gaming company Epic Games to bring photorealistic visualization technology to its upcoming next-generationelectric vehicles.Volvo will utilize Epic's game engine, Unreal Engine, to deliver unparalleled high-quality graphics inside the car.

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Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment and software company, best known for its worldwide hit Fortnite.Epic Games also developed the Unreal Engine, which is considered the most advanced real-time 3D creation tool and is widely used in industries such as gaming.Volvo Cars will use the engine to develop its in-car digital interface and render real-time graphics inside the car.

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Volvo Cars is the first European car manufacturer to use Unreal Engine to develop a Human Machine Interface (HMI).Volvo will initially focus on the Driver Information Module (DIM), an in-car display that provides drivers with relevant information and infotainment functions.

In the next generation of Volvo cars, users will see impressive high-quality graphics on these displays.Sharper rendering, richer colors and new 3D animations are just the first steps in a continuous push by Volvo Cars developers to develop graphics.

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Henrik Green, Chief Product Officer at Volvo Cars, said: “In order for our customers to have the best possible user experience and to contribute to safe and personalized driving, we need rich, immersive and responsive visualization inside the car. Unreal Engine enables this and makes time inside a Volvo car even more enjoyable."

By combining Unreal Engine with the high-performance computing power of the third-generation Snapdragon® Cockpit platform, the next generation of Volvo cars will set new standards in graphics and infotainment system performance.

As a result, Volvo Cars' next-generation infotainment system will be more than twice as fast and graphics generation and processing in the car ten times faster than its predecessor.

Heiko Wenczel, Director of Automotive and HMI, Unreal Engine, Epic Games, said: "When you bring interactive high-resolution graphics running in real-time into your car, users open the door to new ways to communicate to everyone in the car. Announcement and entertainment. Volvo Cars' design and product development teams have seized the opportunity to continuously develop new features that take advantage of Unreal Engine capabilities."

The first car to include the new graphics is Volvo Cars' new all-electric flagship model that will be launched later this year.This model is the first of a new generation of pure-motion Volvo cars.Volvo aims to sell only pure electric cars by 2030.

Looking ahead, Volvo sees Unreal Engine advancing other areas of technology in new Volvo cars as Volvo Cars developers continue to explore new applications for this and other software-driven technology platforms, while keeping safety first. more opportunities.