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This demo adapts Hillside, a sample architecture project by Epic, Safdie Architects, and Neoscape, into a browser-streamed exploration using Vagon Streams. Built with Unreal Engine’s latest rendering technologies, the environment delivers cinematic realism — from dramatic canyon vistas to detailed interior spaces — without requiring a local GPU or install.
As users move through the environment, lighting reacts naturally, shadows shift dynamically, and geometry detail remains crisp. Even transitions between daylight and dusk or different decks are seamless, preserving the immersive quality of a native build.
The Challenge
The Hillside project demonstrates Unreal Engine’s advanced features like Nanite, Lumen, path tracing, and virtual shadow maps, pushing the limits of photorealistic visualization. Rendering that level of detail locally demands very powerful hardware. For many collaborators or clients, simply launching the build is prohibitive.
Moreover, distributing such a project traditionally involved huge packaged builds, long downloads, or video exports — all of which strip away interactivity or degrade quality. Clients end up seeing only curated views or reduced fidelity, not the full spatial experience.
Differences in hardware also lead to inconsistent visuals: lighting may appear differently, geometry detail may be dropped, or frame rate could suffer. That discrepancy weakens shared understanding between designers and reviewers.
With Vagon Streams, those barriers vanish. The entire project runs on high-performance cloud GPUs. Every user, no matter their device, sees the same high-fidelity scene in real time. No downloads, no hardware constraints — just the full environment delivered via browser.
The Impact of Cloud Streaming
Streaming Hillside through Vagon Streams shifts how architecture, design, and visualization teams present and review large-scale environments.
Design teams can share the full build instantly. Clients, stakeholders, or remote collaborators can explore on their own — adjusting camera angles, toggling views, or pausing in particular zones. There’s no reliance on static renderings or limited flythrough videos.
In design reviews, everyone sees identical visuals — lighting, materials, geometry — regardless of their device. When a change is proposed, it can be visualized immediately in the same streamed instance, avoiding mismatches.
For presentations or pitches, interactive exploration builds deeper engagement. Viewers can navigate freely, inspect finishes, and feel spatial context, not just watch pre-recorded segments.
In educational or training settings, learners access complex architectural scenes directly from any device, without needing rendering rigs or high-end workstations.
By centralizing the rendering pipeline, Vagon Streams transforms the Hillside Sample Project from a powerful native demo into an accessible, shared, and interactive experience — breaking down technical barriers, unifying collaboration, and preserving fidelity for all participants.
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