Luminous Engine

In June 2012, during the E3, Square Enix showed a technical demo about what would be their next generation engine for next years.

The video, titled Agni's Philosophy, was working in real time (it was not recorded before).

 

They stated that the size of the assets could be a problem, even for Blu-ray discs. However, they also stated that hardly anything is compressed in that demo.

They have already published some videos showing what Luminous Engine, as it is called, is going to be able to do.
 
We can see three characters in detail and two videos about hair simulation.

 

 

 

It looks like a big progress regarding graphics engines, so we will have to see what the main competitors do.