First demo of the Unreal Engine 5 graphics engine running on PS5

One of the most popular graphics engines, Unreal Engine, has shown to have enormous potential, which is why many studies use this engine to develop their games. Well, while we wait for news regarding PlayStation 5 from Sony, we have to talk about Unreal Engine 5, the new version of the graphics engine that will take advantage of the full potential of the new consoles and graphics cards

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The first demo of Unreal Engine 5 has just been published on YouTube in real time on PlayStation 5. We can only say that you better get comfortable, it is quite a visual spectacle, it looks scandalous! The level of photorealism is really impressive and the new console from Sony moves the technical demo with great ease.

Unreal Engine 5 has two new technologies, Nanite virtualized micropolygon geometry and Lumen. The first allows developers create more detailed scenarios

. The second technology, Lumen, is a dynamic global lighting that is able to instantly react to changes in scene and lights. But this is not all, there are also improvements in other features that are already present in Unreal Engine 4.25: improvements in the physics of Niagara VFX, in the animation system and also news related to audio.

What did you think of the demo?