Tag: roblox

• Roblox’s Road to 4D Generative AI

  June 26, 2024

  Roblox is building toward 4D generative AI, going beyond single 3D objects to dynamic interactions. Solving the challenge of 4D will require multimodal understanding across appearance, shape, physics, and scripts.… more ›

• A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here’s What Happened Instead

  July 31, 2022

  Samerson Orias was working as a line cook last year in the rural Philippines when his friend told him he could make way more money playing a new video game.… more ›

• Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball

  July 20, 2022

  If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Let’s talk about the metaverse. https://www.theverge.com/23269170/what-is-the-metaverse-matthew-ball-interview-decoder-podcast more ›

• Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism

  February 13, 2022

  “Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic… more ›

• Raph Koster’s real talk about a real metaverse

  February 6, 2022

  Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Not many people can say “been there,… more ›

• China gaming crackdown: freeze on new video game licences extends into 2022 as 14,000 gaming-related firms shut down

  January 12, 2022

  A previous version of this story said 140,000 gaming-related firms shut down from July to December 2021 and 180,000 in 2020. The actual numbers were 14,000 and 18,000, respectively. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3161717/china-gaming-crackdown-freeze-new-video-game-licences-extends-2022 more ›

• The game makers and artists pushing Roblox to its limits

  July 19, 2021

  Like so many Roblox players, digital artist Everest Pipkin has their own abandoned birthday world. Last year, when the pandemic made in-person gatherings impossible, Pipkin downloaded Roblox Studio, the platform’s… more ›

• Luxury’s Battle For The Metaverse

  June 3, 2021

  The creation of a metaverse — an online world that fulfills real-world desires and activities — was always inevitable. From sci-fi novels to Hollywood blockbusters, we have been well prepared… more ›

• Roblox Queen MeganPlays Is Making Millions With a Blocky Digital Empire

  May 2, 2021

  In 2018, Megan Letter (then known by her maiden name, Leeds) was making about $400 a month posting videos of herself playing the life simulation game The Sims on YouTube. It wasn’t… more ›

• Building the metaverse

  April 27, 2021

  The meta-space race is on as competition to create, define and own the metaverse takes off. Billions of dollars are being fueled into building a unified and interconnected digital world,… more ›