Performance looks horrible in their demos.
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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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.
I find audible proximity sensors to be far more useful, as I can freely look around the vehicle while listening for the closest contact point.
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What does this have to do with the comment you're replying to? The US was ahead of the EU in requiring backup cameras on new vehicles. The majority of pedestrian accidents aren't involved with backup cameras. Are you just trying to turn this into a US vs EU argument?
i think they're talking about the types of cars popular in the us vs. the eu.
While I think it's more because of the speed difference in cities. In EU you just can't drive fast, because it's crowded. In the USA you have way more space to drive speed limit
Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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A game engine is sort of just a UI toolkit for interacting with 3d objects. If you want a 3d model you can interact with, you call that a game engine. Should they invent something new because they dislike the word "game"?
Worked for a shop that had the hardest time grasping this. We had to tell them UE4 was a "3D Rendering Engine" because they couldn't get over the term "game engine" in planning meetings...
I feel like Nvidia Omniverse's main innovation is that they call themselves an 'industrial metaverse platform' even though their product is practically not much different from a game engine.
Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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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
What an absolute tragedy it must be to go through that. Hopefully he finds peace knowing this law will save many other children.
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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 don’t care. I want a simple car with simple parts that I can fix. Not this spaceship that we get now days. The 12v battery on my partners car had to be replaced, apparently it had to be “paired” in the shop and was not user serviceable wtf!?
The "pairing" probably makes sense if you deep-dive into the technical details. My guess is that the battery has software on it to improve performance, total life, whatever.
The real problem is that the whole is not designed to be user-servicable.
Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
#277They are likely avoiding Godot because it is written in C++ and cannot run directly inside their browser-based JavaScript runtime environment.
They dont want a build process.
Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
"Nice car. What kind of engine does it have?" "V8" "Which kind of V8?"
Flat plane or cross plane? Cross plane cranks necessitate an asymmetric firing order, which produces the wonderful burble from US V8s. Flat plane is more common in Europe - think Ferrari - and has a symmetric firing order that produces a toneless metallic howl.
Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
#279It's sad, but in the battle for a free ecosystem in video games, we must all join forces towards a single goal. IMHO, it's Godot.
Re: Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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As someone who can only afford cars that are 10+ years old, i've never owened a car with a backup camera. And in a way-- good. That part of my brain, let it continue to develop. I am much better at "feeling out" where a car is than my friends who rely on back up cameras.
I understand your skepticism 100%, but I suspect you might change your mind if you, say, rented a car with it for a week. It's definitely a net positive for safety, and it probably costs the auto maker less than the seat belts (literally).
ive owned two cars. the modern backup camera means the new one has small "stylish...." rear windows. it is wayyyy more dangerous than the older one with no sensors
i only have those two data points; but give me an older car with larger windows every. single. time.