Volvo Cars and Epic will bring photorealistic visualization to electric cars

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Volvo Cars is bringing photorealistic visualization to the interior of its upcoming electric cars through a collaboration with Epic Games. It’s a case of car engines and game engines coming together.

Volvo will use Epic’s Unreal Engine game engine to create high-quality graphics inside the cabin. Epic Games is a game engine maker and game creator best known for Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games. Epic Games also develops Unreal Engine 5, which launched this year as a real-time 3D creation tool for both games and other industries.

Volvo Cars will use the engine to develop digital interfaces inside its cars and render real-time graphics in the car.

Volvo Cars is the first European carmaker to use the Unreal Engine for the development of the human machine interface (HMI). More specifically, it will initially focus on the driver information module (DIM), one of the displays inside the cabin that provide the driver with relevant information and infotainment features.

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In the next generation of Volvo cars, customers will encounter impressive, high-quality graphics on those displays. Much sharper renderings, richer colors and brand new 3D animations are only the first steps as Volvo Cars developers continue to push the graphic envelope, the companies said.

“To offer our customers the best possible user experience and contribute to a safe and personal drive, we need rich, immersive and responsive visualization