Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5

Unreal Engine 5 empowers artists to achieve unprecedented levels of detail and interactivity, and brings these capabilities within practical reach of teams of all sizes through highly productive tools and content libraries.

Join Technical Director of Graphics Brian Karis and Special Projects Art Director Jerome Platteaux (filmed in March 2020) for an in-depth look at "Lumen in the Land of Nanite" - a real-time demonstration running live on PlayStation 5 showcasing two new core technologies that will debut in UE5: Nanite virtualized micropolygon geometry, which frees artists to create as much geometric detail as the eye can see, and Lumen, a fully dynamic global illumination solution that immediately reacts to scene and light changes.

Also present in the demo are next-gen features already available in Unreal Engine 4.25, such as Niagara VFX improvements, Chaos physics and destruction, animation system enhancements, and audio advancements. Unreal Engine 4.25 also includes support for next-gen consoles.

[bottleddawn]

Plot twist: The two Epic game guys at the beginning are also rendered with Unreal Engine 5

[rayray]

Unreal Devs: Look at this 8k texture.
Me watching this on 144p: ah right, it looks good.

[Jaxon_America]

Showed my mom and she said "Wow, we used to just have a dot on screen that would ping pong back and forth."

It is insane just how far graphics, and technology in general has progressed in 40 years.

[concernedshrimp]

"These object has millions of triangles each."

My PC : No no no, we don't do that here.

[rustyfuzz]

At the edge of our universe there's probably just a gigantic wall displaying the words 'Powered by Unreal Engine'

[ravivano]

My grandpa already thought gta5 was a movie, imagine showing him this

[XenoMassxx]

What's funny is this demo is 4 years old and we've yet to see an Unreal Engine 5 game look this good on neither PS5 or XBOX SERIES X lol

[Kougeru]

2 years later and no PS5 game looks anywhere near this good

[leifhill]

2002: cutscene is a video file that plays in the game

2012: Cutscene rendered in-engine

2020: *The game is the cutscene*

[duandabriandika]

imagine completely ignoring and walking right past 33 million triangles

[cortisolblue]

The way the lighting reacts dynamically is just brilliant. There's alot that goes into photorealism but the cornerstone of a convincing set is accurate lighting. This is definitely a leap in our ability to replicate realistic light behavior. Oh man I'm so excited for next gen games. Hellblade 2 is being made with this engine and the gameplay reveal looks unreal (pun intended).

[Arberin]

Still waiting for games to look like that

[TritaniumYT]

Unreal Engine 10 : We have programmed every single atom that is in this cave

[bttlemastr]

One day we'll realize we've been living in Unreal Engine 6 our whole lives.

[denno]

Lumen looks great, but the technology of nanite is what is genuinely mind blowing.

[hassansyed]

That last sequence of her flying/parkouring through the broken buildings was unbelievable.

[stuffever]

"There are Over 16 Billion triangles in this room" - Pythagoras: *Heavy Breathing*

[delhidude]

Plot twist: The two devs at the starting are also rendered in the engine.

[yoaiou]

It's been 2 years, still waiting for a game at this quality

[Ricardo-tyob]

I am glad that Hellblade 2 resembles a lot with this demo. Good work Ninja Theory, you guys delivered it.