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.
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Probably most notably, Nintendo originally made Hanafuda cards.
Nintendo still makes hanafuda cards.
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?
The same reason unreal and godot are used on the Tesla console
NIHS
Not exactly endorsing it, but it worked for Sony who was mainly known for making TVs and Walkman.
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.
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.
