SUMM

Unreal Engine 5.6 is compared to Tony Stark open sourcing his workshop, highlighting its powerful new capabilities.
The Metahuman system now provides high-fidelity virtual humans exceptionally quickly, and both features are integrated into Unreal Engine.
Users can now insert impressively realistic imagined people or even themselves into games and movies.
Previously, creating a digital human required a depth camera and significant hardware; now, only a standard phone camera is needed.
Movements and detailed facial expressions are mirrored in real-time, offering remarkable ease and speed.
Virtual clothing can be customized for the digital self, adapting automatically to body adjustments.
Users can freely modify body shape and clothing proportions for their virtual characters with no manual expertise required.

Enhanced expression editing and improved hair styling tools are included, drastically reducing the time required for these adjustments.
Adjustments that took hours can now be completed in seconds within virtual worlds.

Lumen, the global illumination system, has improved, delivering even more realistic lighting and material effects.
Real-time ray tracing, once thought impossible within a researcher's lifetime, is now faster and more efficient.
Geometry for large virtual worlds loads more quickly.
Editing character motion is now more intuitive and accessible.
Facial expressions and shape changes can be sculpted on 3D characters directly within the editor, even while a game is running.
Real-time physics and ragdoll effects can be added to characters in Control Rig for more convincing movement and interactivity.

Substrate materials support mixing of complex material models flexibly and realistically.
Unreal Engine 5.6 is available for download and free for most creators.

Demonstrates running the DeepSeek AI model with 671 billion parameters via Lambda GPU Cloud.
Lambda offers access to powerful NVIDIA GPUs for running chatbots and AI experiments.

Unreal Engine 5.6: Outrageously Good!