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.
replyWhy is a full game engine needed to display a GUI for unlocking a door? There are endless simpler solutions. The apps I use every day don't use game engines (except games).
replyA 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"?
replyWorked 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...
replyBecause modern cars compete with animations that amaze users/buyers.
replyIn either way, it will be open source and quite fun to build stuff on top.
Because you need and want all the fancy features such as
reply - fancy HDR rendering with reflection planes,atmospheric effects, tone mapping, camera effects, all kinds of animations for doors opening, lights turning on off etc
- content pipelines to get all this data from digital creation tools into packages deployable on target
The market for automotive features in the US diverged from "need" long ago.
replyGame engines, UI frameworks, desktop environments, and web browsers all share a lot of features. The Arcan project is my favorite piece of software running with this idea rn
replyYes, that Toyota. Looks like it came out of this group. https://www.toyotaconnected.com/about
replyit'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.
replySo basically the same sort of thing Samsung does with its corporate subsidiary. At least that's the first one I think of. But I know there others who leverage the brand all the way down the ladder.
replyYes. Had to look it up, but apparently it was developed by TCNA (Toyota Connected North America) which does car software and such.
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replyThey needed a GUI toolkit for dash display, and didn't really like long engine init time of Unreal/Unity/Godot.
replyWas bevy considered?
replyI don't think anyone's seriously using Bevy's 3D renderer, only the ECS. The only successful 3D game made with Bevy so far seems to be Tiny Glade, which used its own renderer.
replyI'm surprised Toyota even used something as new-ish as Flutter. Carmakers usually are the last to adopt anything.
replyBevy is the opposite of an old boring solution. It's a cool engine, but I imagine a manufacturer would like to have long-term support with 15-year timelines. Bevy doesn't offer that, and even trying to have that wouldn't be good for Bevy.
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