Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart
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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Why tho
Japanese companies have a habit of getting bored and just delving into random ass industries LMAO
Yeah... they have a tendency to spread into unrelated markets, and then dominate.
Probably most notably, Nintendo originally made Hanafuda cards.
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.
Nintendo started as a card game manufacturer.
I have a hunch it's for in-car visualizations, similar to how Tesla uses Unreal Engine.
Tell me what Yamaha makes?
Not exactly endorsing it, but it worked for Sony who was mainly known for making TVs and Walkman.
The same reason unreal and godot are used on the Tesla console
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Interesting. This might actually become a good option for mobile games and apps. I've created a few Flutter apps that integrate Unity for their 3d content, but that always comes with drawbacks, especially performance-wise. I'll definitely keep an eye on this.
This seems sort of interesting, although I really wonder how performant it'll actually be given that most Flutter apps on my phone are somewhat laggy.
And they're a usability nightmare on PC
Same. flutter apps just feel sooo heavy and laggy.
Doesn’t godot already solve a lot of this?
When has an existing solution prevented a new one from being developed?
https://xkcd.com/927/
Addressed in the article.
Long startup times? Godot opens very quickly on my computer. Granted, my projects are small test projects with not much going on, but flutter and dart will probably start sputtering once their scenes get bigger.
They are also always at the mercy of Google who might drop flutter and dart at any time.
On your computer. I think this engine is aimed at embedded, if I understand the article correctly
But are they going to develop games on the embedded device?
Maybe not embedded devices, but hardware equivalent to mid phones from 2016 which is what I suppose would be the equivalent of the media center in their cars, stuff that might not even support OpenGL3
Also: godot still isn't that great with 3D graphics
maybe practically not developing on an embedded device. but targetting to. Godot games on Android is also not the smallest nor starts up the fastest compared to something like Defold games.
How about console grade open source car systems
Thanks. Looks like Microsoft is getting their dirty hands in Toyota. Good to know now that I'm looking at trucks.