Volvo is figuring out new ways to make use of 3D graphics in cars.

Volvo Cars and Epic will bring photorealistic visualization to electric cars

Volvo Cars is bringing photorealistic visualization to the interior of its upcoming electric cars through a collaboration with Epic Games. It’s a case of car engines and game engines coming together.

Volvo will use Epic’s Unreal Engine game engine to create high-quality graphics inside the cabin. Epic Games is a game engine maker and game creator best known for Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games. Epic Games also develops Unreal Engine 5, which launched this year as a real-time 3D creation tool for both games and other industries.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.