Unreal Encourages Filmmakers To Use Its Game Engine

An hour-long exploration of the technology in the demo is also available:

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney believes that the Unreal Engine will drive the growth of VR cinema and encourage further media convergence. In his State of the Unreal Engine talk at GDC, Sweeney explained that convergence is happening because of the real-time game engine’s photorealistic rendering, which is the “enabling feature that makes it all possible.” Said Sweeney:

“The astonishing thing that happens with photorealistic rendering is once you have realistic objects and realistic lights, you have portability of content between all of these different industries and forms of media. An object that is photoreal that is built for a movie set is as equally applicable to a game or an architectural visualization…We see game developers, architects, storytellers and industrial designers all sharing tools and techniques for their content creation process, and even though they’re creating radically different experiences, they’re now speaking the same language [and] they’re using the same tools, and it’s all happening in real-time in 3D.”