I'm super impressed by this tech demo. Keanu Reeves looks real.

Apart from the hair as that's still half to a whole decade before convincing.

@NopWORKS You might argue that it's digitized from real life (photo scanned Keanu etc), but it is a 3D animated model running real time in Unreal Engine.

@NopWORKS no it is not.

It looks real because it is filmed footage from real life, not a CGI.

I would be glad to experience this

Maybe

Comply and obey us, peasant

I cannot wait for the bugs!

@TyQash This is excellent. Well done.

@Maximum Don "What did you see?"

Deja Vu

@AwesomeBlackDude this isnt a game you ding dong

@AwesomeBlackDude it’s not a game tho

A Matrix game where you play as a person waking up to the Matrix, meeting Matrix characters from the movies would be hella dope.

@Kinos141 hell yeah. We need a fully fledged matrix rpg. Not pre designed levels. We need to have full access between the really world and the matrix. The more your level up the better things the operator can get you ect.

It ugh exists actually is called matrix online. Infact the new movie the reason morphious isn't in it. Is because in the online game he sacrifices himself to save the ppl in the matrix

Life then.

this isnt a game

@mangarookie Lol facts I wanna be “The One”

That CGi Keanu looks actually really nice :O The only thing that gives it away is actually the eyebrow animation, I can't point it really out, maybe too snappy that's like 70% what reveals it to me. The eyes this is even harder to point out, I would say the reflection and maybe I miss micro movement. And the main hair shader which looks smooth, the coloring is alright, I would also say more in the direction of reflections. The rest is pretty much on point.

In other words, CGI.

For me it's always the mouth animations that are the dead giveaway. They always look robotic

yeah just a bit of staticness/stiffness to it still, but I'd take this any day nonetheless

yep, the eyes look a little dead, but that's it - surprisingly the mouth movement is perfect, which usually is where I see uncanniness

Wake up samurai 2 :)

I remember seeing the first game using the Unreal engine, named Unreal, and had not heard about it at all. My roommate had just picked it up and was playing it, he showed me the reflections on the floor in the wet areas, the lighting, etc, and my first comment was "Man, that's unreal!", and then I learned that was the name of the game and later that it was an engine for game development. This was a massive leap forward back then from what we were used to in games.

I mean this looks pretty real to me, you’ve got me convinced

Hey like your video's even ahsoka decision's 🙂

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

@Alfonso Alejandro Morales Maldonado Yes definitely some things to improve but very good and we can finally say nextgen like!

Welcome to planit earth 🌎 this is a new world reborn again is a positive world whith positive heumans no negative heumans is love happyness

I want a new Matrix game 🙏🏽

keep wanting, this isnt a game

Stick a green plastic wrap or something on your screen and play John Wick

We all want

If the demo does well I guarantee there will be a new matrix game like the path of neo. Trust me.

Extremely impressive tech demo, although there’s still something about it that feels off. I’m not sure if it’s the eyes, the minimal animation, or the hair (maybe a mix of all three), but something about the smoothness of it makes it able to be picked out as CGI. But still, some of the most realistic looking animation by far!

definitely the eyes. but agreed, still looks great

subsurface scattering is missing

A remake of path of neo with the new movie included would pretty dope. Maybe a John wick cameo or two.

All the comments thinking it would be a new game: It's just a tech demo. So don't get your hopes up. It's there to promote the power of UE5.

If this lives up to either: “Enter the Matrix” Or “The Matrix: Path of Neo” I will be a very happy gamer!

Maximum Don just the title for the demo to make it sound cool, maybe it has a narrative element which would explain the sub title “awakens”

@MikeTheGreek Ah, too bad. Why is it called “Matrix Awakens” though? As far as I know, the new movie is called Resurrections. And the tech demo is for the “Unreal engine 5”. So what is “Awakens”?

It's a tech demo not a game.

I hope we get a new Matrix game. That would be sick.

We need a PC or Mac demo too!

This is not a game for sure, just a tech demo, but even that way I would be glad to experience this

Damn, 22 years after the first Matrix movie, when we finally have good immersive roomscale VR, we actually get a new Matrix movie, and the "Matrix experience" is flatscreen... That just feels depressing, like a missed opportunity 22 years in the making. With the new Star Wars movies several years ago, we got to play with a lightsaber in VR and hear it go "voom voom" with full haptic feedback as we waved it around. I mean I know that most of UE5's headline features don't work in VR, but the disappointment is like if Star Trek TNG teased a holodeck experience after nearly 30 years, and they ended up acting as if they never heard of VR and released it as a mobile game with corny AR gimmicks.

Unreal engine is phenomenal! I'm very excited for this release.

Hi Clinton, I've seen plenty of Unreal Engine demos on YouTube like other folk, but I honestly don't know how to describe the huge 'wins' inherent in this new engine, is it its ability to allow designers to quickly utilise pre-created textures based on real photography that is part of the value? I'm sure I'm terribly simplifying things, but I'm trying to understand if Unreal Engine is a game-changer to games, to films and TV, something else or all of the above?

This may be. The perfect time to make a matrix game.

@The Barbeque Authority you aren't a game.

its not a game

All the comments thinking it would be a new game: It's just a tech demo. So don't get your hopes up. It's there to promote the power of UE5.

@Ariel Cool, Did I ask about VR? I’m just saying you contradicted yourself. By putting “In the traditional sense.” You cast doubt on yourself that it’s “not a tech demo.” Cleaver wording if you are wrong. You can’t be so sure of yourself that it’s not a tech demo, is my point.

@Tensolin01 Guess what? Tech Demos also in a "Traditional Sense" are not playable with a 25 gb file size. Playstation has shelved multiple tech demos people thought would turn out as something on the table for Sony to turn into a game that never was. We also know it's not VR experience because for one there's not enough PS-5 on the market to justify any game at the moment to be marketed towards customers who do not possess a VR Headset for something downloadable now which is not advertised as a VR game or even tech demo for that matter. So I don't know why people keep referring to it as a tech demo when there is no official information out there that confirms that theory.

@Ariel “In the traditional sense.” As you just said…

25 GB is a game. I can list many triple A games under 25 gb. So this isn't a tech demo in the traditional sense. Nice try though m

Detroit become human was created from a tech demo.

was an engine for game development. This was a massive leap forward back then from what we were used to in games.

That's great news, even though UE5 isn't officially marketed as "stable" right now it's getting more and more adopted by devs (me inclusive!). It's just a shame the tech demo won't release for PC, I wonder if they're prioritizing the consoles to tune UE5 since they already know high-end PCs will definitely run a demo like this without issues. Would make the most sense to me at least (unless it's because of a deal with the console people or so...).

The human face has 42 different muscles which create all expressions, so even if you're not familiar with the actual science behind microexpressions you can watch him talk and just know there's something wrong even if you can't point out exactly which of those muscles aren't moving at all or at the proper time. Watch the TV show Lie To Me which is largely based on Paul Eckman's 2007 book where he discovered microexpressions and how every race and culture in the world exhibits identical microexpressions for each feeling.

We'll be there before the end of the decade :)

True. Also the bright in the eyes, the tone of the skin... it's 99.9% real but (still) not 100%!

A new matrix game with the graphics of the times, this is going to be the best selling game. How long have I waited and hoped for this.played enter the matrix on the xbox was one of the best games

WE NEED A NEW GAME

this isnt a game

@Jacob Bradshaw I mean this is roughly 26 GB so it should have a decent length storyline to it.

Path of Neo remake maybe?

Path Of Neo was THE Matrix game. I still have it on PS2.

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I really want to see some game made on Unreal Engine 5 I'm really looking forward to it, plus a Matrix game would be awesome

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Gotta wait till UE5 is fully out mate

Check out Black Myth Wukong, that's an Unreal Engine 5 game, coming out in 2023.

Fortnite just upgraded to unreal 5

One of these days Epic is going to make a game engine more realistic than reality itself.

Pretty good. Something about the skin still looks fake. Idk if its the rendering or the lighting but skin is very hard to fake. The way it absorbs and reflects light is very difficult to fake. Still one of the best full CGI faces I have seen. If you back this up and darken the scene it would be much harder to tell. Still at a quick glance its hard to tell its fake immediately. It looks a bit off at first and when you stop to think about it you can tell its fake but the fact that it only looks a little off is a huge improvement from where we used to be with CGI faces. Great job Unreal team, keep making things better!

Damn, if the in game can look even KINDA close to this render, thats a next gen step up from Cyberpunk

It looks like the same way they do Metahumans. After using them for months on UE5, I'd say yeah, they can definitely make it look like this in real time. It's seriously cool.

Definitely CGI, extremely impressive though. 🔥 You can always tell by how the facial expressions "snap back" to their default or previous position instantly, real human faces don't do that. In this case, it's the mouth. It snaps back to it's previous position quickly, as soon as he stops talking

I doubt that's a valid piece of evidence. I think the movements were modeled with facial motion capture or at the very least based on a video. I really, really don't think this was animated from scratch.

His mouth is in frame for literally 1 second

If this is anything as good as the Radiohead experience, we're in for a treat.

Anybody else remember those stick figure flash matrix games? How far we have come....

Something of concern. If they did decide to make a game based on the love of the tech demo, it'd be super rushed because they'd want it to tie into the movie and probably suck outside of the graphical goodness, so really it's a be careful what you wish for situation.

holy crap... imagine seeing this in VR O_O

Imagine The Matrix MMO brought back but with current tech. Hopefully this isn't just a cash grab and will be worth playing.

@Mountain Nomad VFX I know. What I was saying is that if this is a UE5 experience made to show off the engines capabilitys, they are not going to build much on top of it and rather stick to official, existing solutions.

@Til W. UE is just a foundation upon which you could build anything, including an MMO.

Online matrix game, much like the series, was generations ahead of its time. Only recently has tech caught up to its concepts, I think a Matrix MMO would be great at thus time

@Til W. The technology is there to create massive scales maps with amazing level streaming and optimization , amazing multiplayer and network infrastructure (as seen in Fortnite with millions of players). You have no idea in the least of what you are talking about. I work for DICE in 2008-2015 and just in my spare time with using UDK before and UE4 is 100 times more capable to have MMO games than many other big competitors engines out there. Their game engine engineers are in tops of the game and plain genius people, not to mention the amazing new technology coming in UE5 including nanite.

@Til W. what the hell are you talking about lmao 😂

Hair is kinda off and subtle eye movements as well. In general this has very limited facial movement. A more complex animation would probably be a dead giveaway... maybe with Unreal Engine 6 or 7 we'll get realistic human CGI. Who knows. This is close but not there yet. Also, other than face, the other thing current CGI cannot do is hands and feet - how they interact with surfaces and subtle finger and toe movements. In general, I think if the animators won't start applying proper mass and proper mass displacement to the models, movement will always be clunky. I guess they would need to start modeling from skeleton and mussle tissue, which would take an incredible amount of computing power.

OMG the Keanu Reeves model is CGI! Insane I almost fell for it

@Tom Real time is CGI, CGI stands for Computer Generated Imagery, so anything rendered, Realtime or otherwise is CGI

Its not CGI I mean its real time and can be used in game!🔥

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@Tom it's a computer generated image. Its cgi.

If we fight a giant agent smith at the end, this would be an instant masterpiece.

I remember the matrix on the PlayStation was actually a fun game

The eyes give it away. Damn that looks almost real life.

The eyes give it away. Damn that looks almost real life.

Can't wait to play it

Damn, if the in game can look even KINDA close to this render, thats a next gen step up from Cyberpunk

Damn, if the in game can look even KINDA close to this render, thats a next gen step up from Cyberpunk

Unreal Engine have created a fantastic render! Spotted the difference straight away and my god that's fantastic! I hope and pray its not just a 30min to 1hr story experience like Until Dawn. I would love it if this was a new version of the Matrix Online, or similar to the Path of Neo. That would be unbelievable!

If this doesn't look real to you, I don't know what does

That would be good if we could play it on PC :(

I seriously thought that was real life the first time.

wow, great idea, I knew something like this is coming, it make all the sense

We demand a new matrix game! NOW! :)

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Until Dawn. I would love it if this was a new version of the Matrix Online, or similar to the Path of Neo. That would be unbelievable!

Guys, you ever think that we're all actually living in a real-world Matrix?

The likelihood of being in a simulation is high.

The fact that Keanu is cgi in this is kinda cool

I'm sure will need this new game.

You should make fantasy games based on the bestsellers like The Last Unicorn the Lost Journey, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, the Princess Bride, Eragon, etc.

Without a day 1 youtube patch, this clearly has to be real. No game or tech demo has been released in a working state since before the first Matrix movie was released.

Epic! Thanks Keanu Reeves!

I hope we get a new Matrix game. That would be sick.

This is not a game for sure, just a tech demo, but even that way I would be glad to experience this

I hope we get a new Matrix game. That would be sick.

Needs more PC version.

Eyes looked a little dead at the end but otherwise spot on!

Visually fantastic! that means gameplay it's gonna be awful

That moment when you remember that old Matrix online game was cannon...

@grah55 Hey, remember that time you thought the matrix tech demo was a game? LOL

@grah55 IT’S COMING

@Sir Mount Matrix Awakens is just a tech demo. We do hope someone is working on a new game though.

@grah55 So excited for this new game.

"How do we know,what is real?" Gotta love that pun! XD

The game so advanced. It’s the matrix itself

The eyes will always give it away. It's not real. There is something about CG eyes that usually feel extremely uncanny. Not always of course, some people can do it. But also, how skin moves on a face seems extremely difficult to emulate. If it's real I'll eat my shoe, but it's obviously not imo and I'll bet my entire business and savings on it.

He looks breathtaking in Unreal 5

Don't make a one & done, please keep the demos coming!

I don't even like Matrix but reckon Reeves looks real asf

Is it even scientifically possible to get more meta than this? NEO, I Believe!!!

Can't wait !

Can tell it's not real, something about his cheek bones

clown

Liar liar pants on fire

wait a minute finally getting another matrix game 🥺 who remembers the one from original xbox & ps2 ?

Sadly no. It's only a tech demo.

First watch, I didn't pick it - then I watched again at 4K full screen. Hot dam that looks good. Tell me we're getting a new matrix game.

The hype is (Un)real!!!

I would love to see games look like this with great gameplay on ps5 and xbox series x.

Keanu is in awesome CG.

It's gonna look better than the movies

*"I Can Only Show You The Door. You're The One That Has To Walk Through It."*

This better become available on PC as well

@Miagi Fodder Its URE... its running on x86, it would take 20 min to create a PC export which is sad.

It isn't unless your willing to wait 6 years

We are 90% there... its almost like the Eyes dont have the right amount of reflection. Having said that its very impressive, we have come a long way since 2D Gfx went to 3D.

Exactly, it's the bright in his eyes... also the tone of the skin... still not 100% perfect!

This is the very first time i ve been fooled by a video game character thinking he is real. I have been fooled by a video game environment running real time mind you but never before by a human digital character. Thats not an easy task let me tell you. Give it another decade at most and we are going to see Marvel's Avengers Endgame cinematics in real time video games.

I have look 5 Times to realize that this is not the real Keanu....its Meta Human Keanu, Mind Blowing! But what is with PC?!?

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No it's ps5 and Xbox series s/x Tech demo for unreal engine 5. It’s possibly going to get more people to go for a next Gen console, definitely some slick marketing but not a full fledged game. True gamers won’t be biting

I know, I need to saw it twice. Very realistic!

if it sucks its real that's how we know and why we need movies like the matrix to escape

WE NEED A NEW GAME absolutely

We don't know what's real, but we should know what's Unreal.

I got a feeling the Matrix will wake up lots of humans

Nice, but not there yet! It will take a technological generational leap or two or three to cross that uncanny valley and make digital humans that look and more importantly behave like real people. It's coming tho

There definitely should be Rage Against The Machine!

Easy Answer: You can feel it deep inside of you.

The Matrix is getting real

You know you are in the Matrix when you see ninth gen consoles on store shelves...

It's breathtaking

Like cyberpunk. Oh wait

We need a PC version

I've been dreaming with this for years

Anything with Keanu Reeves Is always better.

Bruh I played enter the matrix like 25 times I’m definitely interested

Unreal Engine is getting ready to takeover

WE NEED A NEW GAME

WE NEED A NEW GAME

Now if only Keanu looked like this in cyberpunk 😂

This is metahuman Keanu Reeves!!)))