Upcoming video games resembling GTA 6 will soon boast ultra-realistic graphics

Thanks to Unreal Engine 5, game graphics could take a real leap in the next few years. The first demos show how incredibly realistic people in particular can look. Get a taste of what's coming with AI for games like GTA or The Last of Us.

This is how realistic games could look

The VFX Studio Ziva Dynamics shows what next-gen games could look like in the future. With the help of motion capture, the studio creates something in Unreal Engine 5 that is both amazing and scary: hyper-realistic video game characters and their facial expressions controlled in real time can be.

You can see how realistic the whole thing looks in the following video:

In the best case scenario, facial movements in video games could be possible in the future look more fluid than ever. But it can also lead to the uncanny valley effect – that is, the feeling that something seems almost human, but at the same time there is something unnatural about it.

This effect becomes a little clearer in the following clip using an AI was created:

As some commenters on the Reddit post noted, the smile still seems a little stiff. The lips don't move quite as they should and there are still a few shadows and body fluids missing in the mouth area to make it look even more realistic. By and large, however, the comments agree: the videos are impressive. Over 96,000 people who upvoted the post appear to have the same opinion.

When can you expect photorealistic game characters?

Ziva Dynamics has often worked on CG models for film and television. The fact that the studio now wants to dedicate itself to video games could mean that they also offer their services to large game studios, as soon as the technology matures is. When that will happen, however, cannot be estimated.

Since a GTA 6, for example, is already in development, the next big AAA games will probably have to do without the hyper-realistic faces from Ziva Dynamics for the time being. Since the Unreal Engine 5 However, the photorealism shown is already possible, the whole thing could still go faster than expected. Let's see what else awaits us in the future. (Source: Ziva Dynamics)