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Human-Machine Interface

Introducing the world’s most powerful platform for developing automotive HMI.

Driving HMI innovation with UE5

From General Motors to Lotus, leading automakers are turning to Unreal Engine to power their HMIs. Discover how unmatched visual fidelity, creative flexibility, and performance are driving their decision.

Lotus

Lotus HMIs feature an interactive digital twin of the vehicle: any change made to the physical car, like opening a door, is instantly mirrored by a 3D model displayed on the dashboard.

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Unreal Engine HMI Template

The Unreal Engine HMI Template offers a fast, low-friction way to evaluate or accelerate HMI development. It includes a fully wired digital instrument cluster with live vehicle signals, a high-performance offline map experience, and a modular widget library—all customizable for real-world automotive interface workflows and testing scenarios.

The Unreal Engine HMI Template is currently available to UE licensees by request. To get access, complete the form below.

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Partners & Platforms

Unreal Engine currently supports a range of hardware platforms for automotive HMI, including the Snapdragon™ Automotive Platform from Qualcomm Technologies using the Linux and Android operating systems, as well as compositing content using the QNX Hypervisor. We also work with top development partners, including Siili, Elektrobit, and Bosch.

In addition, we have formed a strategic partnership with Rightware to accelerate the adoption of next-generation automotive user experiences. The Kanzi and Unreal Engine teams provide a seamless path from current-generation HMI deployments to intelligent and immersive vehicle experiences. Rightware supports automotive customers through joint go-to-market activities, customer engagement, solution integration, and engineering services.

“We’re opening the door to unprecedented visual fidelity, connectivity, and all of the personalization that you would expect to have with advanced Unreal Engine workflows.”

ARVIN CHANDER

Qualcomm’s Senior Director of Business Development

Why choose Unreal Engine for HMI?

Pole-position visuals

⁠Unreal Engine sets the pace when it comes to HMI visual fidelity. Create beautiful, interactive 3D visuals thanks to best-in-class graphical capabilities and the industry’s leading deferred renderer. Bring the wow factor with a range of powerful tools all on mobile/embedded platforms.

Next-gen dashboard UX

⁠Create captivating in-car experiences with dynamic ambient lighting, an interactive digital twin of the car in the dash, and more. Delight users with downloadable content to customize the look and feel of their UI.

Design-driven development

Designers can contribute directly to the product using Blueprint visual scripting. There’s complete version control support, instant desktop previews, and the ability to customize the engine to your needs with direct access to source code.

Production-hardened tools

UE5 brings fast boot-up and frame rates, a fully optimized pipeline for automotive use cases, seamless integration into your current framework, and profiling tools like Unreal Insights to help hit performance metrics.

HMI features

Unified visualization

Android Single Instance Service 2.0, enables you to run one optimized Unreal Engine HMI instance across multiple in-car displays on Android-based systems. With numerous applications able to access the rendering output of this one service instead of spawning their own 3D rendering, you can shift up a gear when it comes to building modular, efficient, and high-performance automotive UIs.

Android Single Instance Service 2.0

MultiView

Best-in-class rendering

Create beautiful, interactive 3D visuals thanks to Unreal Engine’s Deferred Renderer, which enables the seamless integration of rich 3D UI components with 2D HUD elements, superior handling of transparent materials and blending, and more. Anti-aliasing helps balance quality and performance, while Large World Coordinates unlock accurate navigation systems. Screen Space Reflections (SSR) bring realism, depth, and spatial immersion to reflective UI elements.

Mobile Deferred Renderer

Screen Space Reflections

Mobile anti-aliasing

Large World Coordinates

Niagara

Enhanced developer efficiency

Unreal Insights helps you profile your system’s performance. Assess frame and rendering efficiency, visualize multi-threading performance, and identify hitches or delays in animated transitions. You can perform these assessments both on a desktop and directly on the vehicle’s System on a Chip (SoC). With APIGear, you can generate code that integrates your front and backend systems, connecting the logic and UI layers of your HMI.

Unreal Insights

APIGear

Courtesy of Ford.

Powerful design pipeline

HMI designers can animate design, prototype, and customize 3D interface elements directly in UE5. Unreal Motion Graphics’ Model-View-Viewmodel (MVVM) framework enables clean, maintainable, and data-bound interfaces. Font DPI Scaling ensures UI and text remain sharp across different screen resolutions. And the Common UI plugin provides a unified framework for building responsive, input-adaptive UI.

UMG Viewmodel

Font DPI matching

Common UI toolbox

Modeling tools

Geometry Scripting

Animation Tools

Control Rig

Courtesy of Geely Auto

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HMI projects

Ready to turbocharge your HMI development? Contact us and find out how Epic can help bring best-in-class HMIs to your vehicles.