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Unreal Engine Announces the Partnership with GMC to Design HMI & Infotainment
Welcome to "The Outwrite Podcast". This article is published on www.theoutwrite.com by Varun Singh Rajput.
Unreal Engine doesn’t need an introduction, especially in the gaming industry. Major game titles like Gears of Wars, Infinity Blade, Remake, Final Fantasy VII and Fornite, have Unreal Engine behind the scenes powering up the industry-leading graphics. Now, It can be used to design GMC Hummer EV HMI, infotainment, and digital cockpit.
For users who don’t know, “Unreal Engine is a complete suite of development tools for anyone working with real-time technology. From design visualizations and cinematic experiences to high-quality games across PC, console, mobile, VR, and AR, Unreal Engine gives you everything you need to start, ship, grow, and stand out from the crowd.”
Epic Games hasn’t commented or shown anything on HMI for GMC Hummer EV, however, the company promised to reveal more on October 20, 2020, when Hummer electric truck would be launched. As per the tweet, we can see the hashtag #UE4 which clearly indicates the usage of Unreal Engine 4 in GMC Hummer EV.
While explaining the features of Unreal Engine which led this partnership, the company states, “We are actively implementing HMI-specific features in Unreal Engine—and there are a number HMI workflows you can leverage right now. In some production vehicles, HMIs take 10 seconds or more to load. Significant improvements have been made to HMI startup processes in Unreal Engine, enabling it to boot extremely quickly. Content that is not needed at startup can be loaded after the initial boot, reducing boot time even further. It provides best-in-class visuals for production HMI, with car paint materials and reflections that bring the highest quality real-time graphics to the vehicle. Designers also have the opportunity to work with various automotive material and shaders that extend themselves to mobile HMI.”
Epic quotes “Designing better HMI experiences”, to explain it further, company mentions:
“Our dedicated HMI team believes that designers who are better enabled to execute on their vision and design are best equipped to create compelling in-car experiences. Likewise, we believe that engineers who are freed up to work on critical high-value technical features can provide more value to the product itself. All of this adds up to better user experience. We’re making this easier to achieve than ever by forming new alliances with HMI technology leaders including BlackBerry QNX, Mapbox, Qualcomm, Siili Auto, and Vectorform.”
Unreal Engine has numerous possibilities when it comes to designing, and surely the same capabilities would enhance the overall digital cockpit experience through newly crafted infotainment and HMI initiative.
Here is the Unreal Engine’s video of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) initiative in Automotive:
Thanks for your time, please share your valuable feedback & comments - our email address is: [email protected].
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Welcome to "The Outwrite Podcast". This article is published on www.theoutwrite.com by Varun Singh Rajput.
Unreal Engine doesn’t need an introduction, especially in the gaming industry. Major game titles like Gears of Wars, Infinity Blade, Remake, Final Fantasy VII and Fornite, have Unreal Engine behind the scenes powering up the industry-leading graphics. Now, It can be used to design GMC Hummer EV HMI, infotainment, and digital cockpit.
For users who don’t know, “Unreal Engine is a complete suite of development tools for anyone working with real-time technology. From design visualizations and cinematic experiences to high-quality games across PC, console, mobile, VR, and AR, Unreal Engine gives you everything you need to start, ship, grow, and stand out from the crowd.”
Epic Games hasn’t commented or shown anything on HMI for GMC Hummer EV, however, the company promised to reveal more on October 20, 2020, when Hummer electric truck would be launched. As per the tweet, we can see the hashtag #UE4 which clearly indicates the usage of Unreal Engine 4 in GMC Hummer EV.
While explaining the features of Unreal Engine which led this partnership, the company states, “We are actively implementing HMI-specific features in Unreal Engine—and there are a number HMI workflows you can leverage right now. In some production vehicles, HMIs take 10 seconds or more to load. Significant improvements have been made to HMI startup processes in Unreal Engine, enabling it to boot extremely quickly. Content that is not needed at startup can be loaded after the initial boot, reducing boot time even further. It provides best-in-class visuals for production HMI, with car paint materials and reflections that bring the highest quality real-time graphics to the vehicle. Designers also have the opportunity to work with various automotive material and shaders that extend themselves to mobile HMI.”
Epic quotes “Designing better HMI experiences”, to explain it further, company mentions:
“Our dedicated HMI team believes that designers who are better enabled to execute on their vision and design are best equipped to create compelling in-car experiences. Likewise, we believe that engineers who are freed up to work on critical high-value technical features can provide more value to the product itself. All of this adds up to better user experience. We’re making this easier to achieve than ever by forming new alliances with HMI technology leaders including BlackBerry QNX, Mapbox, Qualcomm, Siili Auto, and Vectorform.”
Unreal Engine has numerous possibilities when it comes to designing, and surely the same capabilities would enhance the overall digital cockpit experience through newly crafted infotainment and HMI initiative.
Here is the Unreal Engine’s video of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) initiative in Automotive:
Thanks for your time, please share your valuable feedback & comments - our email address is: [email protected].