Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart (www.phoronix.com)

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Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite.

Toyota Connected North America is Toyota Motor Corporation's subsidiary founded in collaboration with Microsoft for working on in-vehicle software, AI, and related tech initiatives. Toyota Connected developers announced at FOSDEM 2026 their Fluorite game engine as a "console grade" engine built around Flutter and Dart. They were going with Flutter to leverage its rich UI toolkit and for "building stunning interactive experiences." Fluorite also makes use of Google's Filament 3D rendering engine.

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[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 28 points 7 months ago

Why tho

[-] cm0002@literature.cafe 25 points 7 months ago

Japanese companies have a habit of getting bored and just delving into random ass industries LMAO

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 15 points 7 months ago

Yeah... they have a tendency to spread into unrelated markets, and then dominate.

Probably most notably, Nintendo originally made Hanafuda cards.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Most notable in gaming, no question. You've also got Yamaha (probably the most diverse) making guitars, motorcycles, wheelchairs, electric surfboards, air conditioners, and about a hundred other things. Nokia made rubber boots or some shit before making an indestructible phone.

But I think the most notable is a Korean company, Samsung. Semiconductors, phones, TVs, and other related electronics. Also sentry guns. Also the Burj Khalifa. Also, a theme park (Everland).

I guess to your point, not just Japanese but they do seem to have a greater tendency.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

Nintendo still makes hanafuda cards.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 7 months ago

Nintendo started as a card game manufacturer.

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 10 points 7 months ago

I have a hunch it's for in-car visualizations, similar to how Tesla uses Unreal Engine.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

Tell me what Yamaha makes?

[-] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

Not exactly endorsing it, but it worked for Sony who was mainly known for making TVs and Walkman.

[-] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

The same reason unreal and godot are used on the Tesla console

[-] eah@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

NIHS

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