THE VIDEO SHELF · real-time graphics
The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience
Epic's Unreal Engine 5 tech demo set in the Matrix universe, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. It moves from a cinematic to a playable car chase through a large detailed city, with a behind-the-scenes look at the rendering at the end.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as an impressive real-time rendering showcase, with Nanite and a huge photorealistic city, that rivals film CGI.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Unreal Engine
- Topic
- real-time graphics
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It the demo video (play through) they say it was rendered in real time right at the beginning. Also down in the corner which console its being rendered on,shows up from time to time. so I’m assuming it’s not faked. It looks quite good. Not …
acomjean on Hacker News · 2021-12
In The Matrix Is UnrealNo, but it is a full time job. It's getting much more complicated. Here's an hour long talk on how Unreal Engine 5's Nanite works.[1] This is a huge breakthrough in level of detail theory. Things that used to be O(N) are now O(1). With …
Animats on Hacker News · 2022-01
In Finding your home in game graphics programming
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