{"id":12039,"date":"2022-04-05T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12039"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:43:30","slug":"the-new-unreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/04\/05\/the-new-unreal\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Unreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6164332\/epic-unreal-engine-5-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from TIME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inside Epic&#8217;s Unreal Engine 5\u2014and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/andrew-r-chow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ANDREW R. CHOW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qC5KtatMcUw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, the 3D software development tool\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3904433\/world-of-warcraft-unreal-engine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unreal Engine<\/a>\u00a0has powered some of the biggest video games on the market\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5394933\/fortnite-gaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em><\/a>to\u00a0<em>Valorant<\/em>\u2014as well as television shows like\u00a0<em>The Mandalorian\u00a0<\/em>and even\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thenewswheel.com\/how-porsche-uses-gaming-tech-to-develop-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Porsche engineering<\/a>. On Tuesday, Epic Games showed off the public release of Unreal Engine 5, the engine\u2019s first major update in 8 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company promises that the new updates to Unreal Engine 5 will make it the bedrock for the next generation of Web 3 developments\u2014from metaverse experiences to movies, and of course, video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unreal Engine is the second-most widely used video game engine, trailing only Unity, and is known for its depth of features and visual quality. Unreal Engine 5 augments those strengths, giving its users hyper-intricate 3D detail, facial realism, and large-scale world building. Its release opens the door for Disney to create a live\u00a0<em>Mandalorian\u00a0<\/em>video game that looks nearly as real as the show does, for example, says Kim Libreri, the CTO at Epic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6164332\/epic-unreal-engine-5-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Inside Epic&#8217;s Unreal Engine 5\u2014and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse BY\u00a0ANDREW R. CHOW For years, the 3D software development tool\u00a0Unreal Engine\u00a0has powered some of the biggest video games on the market\u2014from\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0to\u00a0Valorant\u2014as well as television shows like\u00a0The Mandalorian\u00a0and even\u00a0Porsche engineering. On Tuesday, Epic Games showed off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}