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Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Post by luqtas »

DerArzt wrote: post #177
commakozzi wrote: post #171

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unless you're Yoda or Luke Skywalker, you're not "feeling" a 4-year old walking behind you in your blind spot.

If they are feeling it, the worst scenario has happened.

like a vehicle touching a body in a speed of 3/4 km/h and the kid shouting or stepping away? or worst case your motion sensor beeping?

how much the conversation diverts on a commentary about someone not wanting a car shipped with an OS capturing telemetry even of farts on the right back seat

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Post by PlatoIsADisease »

dsr_ wrote: post #74
PlatoIsADisease wrote: post #34

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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?

I can buy a 104 key mechanical keyboard for under $75 retail. That's 104 switches, 104 labelled button caps, a circuit board, controller and USB interface, with reliability likely much better than any other moving part found on an automobile.

That is very factually wrong. The reliability will be worse. That $75 keyboard is going to be used be hundreds of thousands of people, not millions. There is no safety involved. No one is testing to see how sunscreen and 50 other liquids interact with it. Dump a sugary drink on your car buttons, they will still work. Do that on your keyboard and it wont.

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Post by HiPhish »

munificent wrote: post #32
wasmainiac wrote: post #13

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> 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

> 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.

Backup cameras are great for people who wear glasses. My visual cone is narrower, so I effectively have to turn my head 180° to see accurately enough, otherwise it's just a blur.

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Post by PlatoIsADisease »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #129
PlatoIsADisease wrote: post #57

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This is 10 year old outdated, but 10 years ago 1 button was ~1.00. Probably closer to $1.20 or $1.30. But sometimes buttons had 2 buttons on them, Those would go for $2.10-$2.30. Then you had wiring each button wire I believe was $1. This wasnt 1 wire, but a few wires, power, ground, signal. Each button had them. This wasnt my job, so I didn't follow this price too much, but I asked the question at the time. I think…

> This doesn't even include the cost of hiring ~20 engineers to handle the buttons. ~6 people to check appearance and do testing... It doesn't include the assembly costs on the line. That 1% was just the cost of button + wire. That doesn't make sense. $1 uninstalled might make sense for a fancy custom-molded button, even if it's too much for a generic button. (I'd rather have some generic buttons with labels than use…

You are underestimating the quality you are getting with a car. The light colors match perfectly with science and experts. Its wild how much effort goes into it.

Your after market has not been tested to react with sunscreen.

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Post by koolala »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #183

Meh. I've been burned by using closed source game engines before. There's just too many edge cases and nuances that come up when debugging physics or graphical issues. I strongly recommend against using this until they become at the very least source-available.

Seems like it will be open-source if they are presenting it at fosdem. They said it will have a github. It's currently unreleased.

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Post by jjmarr »

harrall wrote: post #186
Zancarius wrote: post #144

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I have to agree. Backing up my Tundra (8' bed) feels substantially safer since I can see immediately behind the vehicle than any pre-regulation vehicle I've driven. That doesn't even account for the convenience with lining up for towing, hauling, etc. (It's no replacement for GOAL—Get Out And Look—but it definitely helps!)

I like it because I can see kids, no matter what vehicle I’m in. I have unusually good spatial skills. I have parallel parked and reverse parked perfectly every single time for over 5 years… …but no matter what, I cannot see behind my bumper. No mirror on any car points there.

The law was passed due to sustained lobbying from a man, Greg Gulbransen, who ran over his child

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Post by glaslong »

falcor84 wrote: post #202
allenrb wrote: post #196

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Give me a backup camera without a screen and then we’ll talk. Doubly so because once you’ve got that screen, no automaker will resist making it do other things.

You piqued my interest. What is the alternative output for a camera without a screen?

These days I guess we could do gpt with voice out to recite a poem about the kid you're about to hit?
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