‘The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S

Unreal Engine and Epic Games announced that “The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Experience” is now available for free download on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S.

According to reports, the game Demo is jointly created by the film director of the “The Matrix” series and Epic Games, and players will travel to the reality-distorting “The Matrix” world. 

The official introduction stated: “In this free, ground-breaking film and real-time technology demonstration, get ready to see the future of Unreal Engine 5’s interactive narrative and entertainment.”

Join Tip3X on Telegram 

Moreover, this technology demonstration is based on Warner Bros. “The Matrix” world, with Lana Wachowski as the screenwriter and director. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss also played Neo and Trinity again, and they are reversing Played himself in the real world.

The project regrouped many staff members who had participated in the production of the classic “The Matrix” trilogy, such as James McTeigue, Kym Barrett, John Gaeta, Kim Libreri, Jerome Platteaux, George Borshukov, and Michael F Gay, and Epic Games and its The team of partners also participated in the collaboration, including SideFX, Evil Eye Pictures, The Coalition, WetaFX (formerly Weta Digital) and many other companies.

Unreal Engine stated that the new technologies implemented in Unreal Engine 5 have taken another step forward in The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Experience. In the demonstration, extremely realistic digital humans reproduced the performances and looks of Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. 

To this end, Epic’s 3Lateral team performed high-fidelity 3D scans of the actors’ faces and captured their performances in 4D at their studio in Novi Sad. This open-world urban environment includes the hero character IO, the startup character of MetaHuman Creator, and thousands of MetaHuman agents, demonstrating the exciting new possibility of creating high-fidelity game characters on a large scale.

The AI ​​system drives the characters and vehicles, and the programmed system built with Houdini generates the city. The world partition system of Unreal Engine 5 makes the development of a broad environment easier to manage. 

The movement of vehicles, the clothing of characters, and the destruction of buildings are all simulated in the engine using the Chaos physics system of Unreal Engine. In the chase experience, since the collision of the car is simulated in real-time by Chaos, the same collision will never happen twice. Each run is unique.

Unreal Engine claims that “The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Experience” is not a game, but the technology demonstration provides a vision for future interactive content: creating colorful and complex cities and environments, as well as realistic and eye-catching Movie scenes.

(VIA)