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Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine

https://fluorite.game/
62•bsimpson•1h ago

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engineer_22•49m ago
How is this related to Toyota? Toyota the car manufacturer?
BugsJustFindMe•45m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Connected_North_America
einr•45m ago
Yes. Had to look it up, but apparently it was developed by TCNA (Toyota Connected North America) which does car software and such.
homarp•44m ago
it'actually Toyota Connected North America, Toyota Motor Corporation's subsidiary founded in collaboration with Microsoft for working on in-vehicle software, AI, and related tech initiatives.
Carrok•43m ago
Yes, that Toyota. Looks like it came out of this group. https://www.toyotaconnected.com/about
giobox•21m ago
I'm guessing its used for some of their in-car UIs - unreal engine has found a market (Rivian, Volvo, Ford...) for embedded automotive use now that so many cars display an interactive 3d model to the driver for things like tapping to unlock corresponding door or trunk etc etc.

> https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/uses/hmi

numpad0•12m ago
They needed a GUI toolkit for dash display, and didn't really like long engine init time of Unreal/Unity/Godot.
homarp•48m ago
The talk at Fosdem about it https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7ZJJWW-fluorite-game-...
Jyaif•45m ago
Interesting, they flipped the problem around.

The UI toolkits in game engine usually suck hard, so here they started from a good UI toolkit and made it possible to make relatively performant games.

There's more info at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1r0lx9g/fluori...

oritron•44m ago
It doesn't say Toyota anywhere on the page and they don't have a link to a repo or anything like that, so I was a little confused. But it is from /that/ Toyota (well, a subsidiary that is making 3d software for their displays) and there was a talk at FOSDEM about it: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7ZJJWW-fluorite-game-...
wasmainiac•38m ago
> They use this game engine in the 2026 RAV4

Funny how “game engines” are now car parts in 2026.

Can I just have an electric car that’s a car and nothing else? Seats, wheels pedals, mirrors, real buttons, no displays just a aux jack. I’d buy it, hell I might even take the risk and pre-order it

x0x0•35m ago
That car is the Slate truck.
oritron•35m ago
Ah sorry, I quickly edited that out of my comment! I had the video playing while posting, they were talking about a precursor project for embedded Flutter which this in some ways builds on, /that/ is running on the new RAV4.

One of the example uses given in the talk is 3D tutorials, which I could imagine being handy. Not sure I'd want to click on the car parts for it but with the correct affordances I could imagine a potentially useful interface.

leecommamichael•35m ago
The "interactive user manual" sounds neat. It probably doesn't need to be part of the car's computer.
Brian_K_White•29m ago
We're all just waiting for the Slate for exactly that reason.
mcny•21m ago
I was hoping it would be under USD 20k including all taxes but now rumors say likely NOT under USD 25k?
ghostly_s•14m ago
well the website says "mid-twenties" so Id say more than a rumor.
xnx•17m ago
Cars should be a USB-C peripheral to a tablet that docks on the dash.
giancarlostoro•10m ago
Honestly, I'd be okay with this, and then you can upgrade / replace said tablet if you wanted to. In an Alternate Universe, your iPad drives your car, your iPad Pro drives your car through hell and back, or whatever.
renewiltord•17m ago
I can build you this for $140k, I think. Interested?
speedgoose•13m ago
It’s a very small market, but yes you can. In Europe, the Citroen Ami is about that. Or the base Dacia Spring.

More expensive cars will have more electronic. They kinda want to sell them.

munificent•3m ago
> no displays

In the US, no. Backup cameras are required by federal law as of 2018. The intent of the law was to reduce the number of children killed by being backed over because the driver couldn't see them behind the car.

PlatoIsADisease•2m ago
Real buttons are more expensive than electronic. Not sure if you care, but people make that mistake more generally.

Game engines are probably trivially cheap to produce in 2026. You forget that Toyota sells 10M cars per year. In 3 years thats 30M cars. What does it cost each buyer for the game engine? 30 cents?

bsimpson•21m ago
Sorry - a Verge article about it popped up in my newsfeed, but they're paywalled now. This is what I found when I searched for more info, so I shared it here.
aabajian•40m ago
The combination of Flutter + Claude Code makes cross-platform app development really, really fast. I've been impressed with how well Clause handles prompts like, "This list should expand on the web, but not on iOS." I then ask it (Claude) to run both a web instance and an iOS simulator instance. Can usability test in-tandem.

I recently (as in, last night) added WebSockets to my backend, push notifications to my frontend iOS, and notification banner to the webapp. It all kinda just works. Biggest issues have been version-matching across with Django/Gunicorn/Amazon Linux images.

germandiago•22m ago
How are you going to maintain all that when you find bugs if it generates a ton of code you did not get through to understand it?
whynotmaybe•2m ago
You ask it to fix it.

I've tried fixing some code manually and then reused an agent but it removed my fix.

Once you vibe code, you don't look at the code.

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