At GDC 2019, Quixel introduced Rebirth; a real-time cinematic produced by Quixel, harnessing the power of Unreal Engine and real-world scans from the Megascans Icelandic collection. As the company noted, and by using Rebirth represents a new way of crafting computer graphics with photorealistic results rivaling traditional offline renderers.
Set in the beautiful, other-worldly landscapes of Iceland, Rebirth brought together a team from VFX, games and ArchViz to produce a cinematic asking existential questions of machine/human hybrids.
The end results are truly amazing and show what developers may achieve in next-gen video games. Now the reason I’m using the term “next-gen” is because there isn’t a single developer that will push THAT much the PC version of its multi-platform game.
So yeah, in order to get visuals that look as good as those featured in this video (and in all the latest UE4 videos we shared during these couple of days) we’ll have to wait until PS5 and the next Xbox release.
As a bonus, I’ve also included below the GDC 2019 trailer for Unreal Engine 4 that showcases its key features.
Enjoy!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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