Unreal's Matrix Teaser Has People Debating Whether Keanu Reeves Is Real

Unreal Engine released an extremely short teaser trailer for its own “boundary-pushing cinematic and real-time tech demo,” The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience. The teaser featured an existential Keanu Reeves looking into the camera and asking a real stumper of a question: “How do we know what is real?” This has prompted many to debate whether the man himself, as glimpsed in the trailer, is real, or merely an incredibly impressive digital facsimile.

“Get ready for a glimpse into the future of interactive storytelling and entertainment with UE5,” touts language on the Unreal website’s promotional page for The Matrix Awakens. While no detailed information has been given on what the Unreal Matrix experience entails, the website has free pre-download links to both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X versions, as well as a countdown timer to The Game Awards this Thursday, where it promises that the “experience will be revealed.”

Since the brief glimpse of Keanu Reeves was the only tangible bit of information from Unreal Engine’s teaser, and since he looks so real while calling the very nature of reality into question, naturally a debate emerged on Twitter over whether the Keanu Reeves shown in the trailer is the genuine article or just an impressive CGI rendering of “The One” via the Unreal Engine 5.

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