In 2004, we founded
@Roblox
with the vision of connecting the world. Today, as we celebrate our direct listing on the
@NYSE
, we recognize the potential ahead of us: to build the platform where billions of people come together to learn, work, and play.
#RobloxIPO
We're excited by the response (and feedback) for The Hunt event. We're experimenting with a slew of new event types and formats for the future.
In unrelated news, I've been enjoying a replay of the first game I built on Roblox...
We are deeply humbled by the overwhelming support for
@Roblox
and our public offering today. To all those who helped us get one step closer to fulfilling our vision of the
#Metaverse
—thank you.
#RobloxIPO
It’s painful to witness the injustice against the Black community in my home state MN. I believe shared experiences bring people together to understand one another & hope the Roblox community will share these learnings as future leaders.
#justiceforfloyd
Roblox events have always featured the innovations of our creator community and the passion of our users. Following our 3.15.24 event, we'll be flying one user and one creator team to San Mateo for dinner and a product planning session. Details to follow on how we select.
Getting feedback will help us as we host increasingly immersive events. We’ll be inviting a user and a creator team who participated in The Hunt to a brainstorming dinner to discuss. Because we can't invite everyone, please share ideas here to help shape what's next….
Every year, we walk away from RDC more inspired than ever. There’s nothing in the world like the passion and creativity of the Roblox community.
#RDC2021
As we add Cloud APIs that allow any Roblox experience to save and load content, it's becoming possible to create an experience on Roblox that essentially functions as Roblox Studio....
Starting today, you can chat in real time with people who speak another language. Our multilingual model enables direct translation between any combination of 16 languages (with all of our safety tech as well). All on our own infrastructure/cloud.
Honored to be recognized as
#1
in gaming and
#9
overall of the World's Most Innovative Companies by
@FastCompany
. I'm thankful for the Roblox employees and talented creators who made this possible.
Our
@WiredUK
2021 prediction: the
#Metaverse
will ultimately serve as a utility, with billions of people coming to platforms like
@Roblox
to socialize, play, learn, experience entertainment, and work together.
#WIREDWorld
Happy to announce
#RDC24
, happening Sept 6th & 7th. There's something special about a gathering of 1000+ creative people who help power the Roblox community. This year is going to be better than ever...
Happy Hunting to everyone today. Special thanks to all Roblox creators worldwide, and to the 100 that opened their portals to the community for this event.
Roblox is a platform where people of all ages can connect with friends and discover a wide range of content. As our platform ages-up, we’re allowing creators to make content for people 17 and older (only age-verified users will be able to access)
Hey everyone I'm having such a fun time at RDC this year and we were all surprised with MetaQuest giveaways today! 🥳
I grabbed mine and I'm so excited to see how we can integrate VR into Twin Atlas experiences 😉
#Roblox
#RDC23
Today, generative AI can create a 3D race car. Roblox is now working on 4D generative AI, where that race car has an engine, moveable parts and a physics rig that enables it to drive down a track — all generated with just a text or voice prompt.
Over 2K Roblox employees gathered in person for Roblox Week, including all together at our largest town hall ever, and later for a picnic on Friday. It was inspirational and led to reflection on the crazy vision Erik and I had: Reimagining how people come together.
Today we welcome PlayStation to the growing list of platforms that support Roblox. Console owners around the world can now explore millions of unique, user-created experiences.
Update: there are eleven players with 99 badges. Thanks again to the 100 creators who are supporting "The Hunt" Roblox-wide. You can play along and get hints from the video stars supporting the event...
Roblox Beta went live on Meta Quest on 7/27. We have seen well over one million downloads in the first 5 days -- another step towards Roblox everywhere, on all devices.
#RobloxDev
Update:
The Roblox Open Beta is now available via App Lab for Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro. We can’t wait to see the engaging experiences you can now optimize for
@metaquestvr
devices.
More information on our Dev Forum
Today we announced that Roblox will be available on Meta Quest - so excited about the opportunity for our developers. It’s a great step as we move towards Roblox everywhere, on all devices.
As the Roblox Innovation Awards come to a close, I'd like to congratulate all of our nominees and winners...
Video:
Attend IN Roblox:
Congratulations to
@LightningSplash
of Doors for this year’s Builderman Award of Excellence
@KreekCraft
and
@Pokediger1
- If you were CEO of Roblox for a day, what is the first thing you would do? (possible extra topic for your debate if needed and interesting to you both....)
Looking forward to seeing everyone today live at
#RDC23
, including over 1000 creators, developers, partners and influencers. Live stream starts at 10 am PST.
As the Roblox Innovation Awards come to a close, I'd like to congratulate all of our nominees and winners.
Special congratulations to
@IntranceRBX
and
@LAgurlzRBLX
of Starving Artists who received this year’s Builderman Award of Excellence
Happy to announce the beta release of Roblox Texture Generator, a tool that allows you to create custom textures for your meshes using natural language prompts. Additional AI capabilities in the video.
Highlights the physics simulation engine in the cloud that helps power Roblox. The more we can simulate, the more real the experiences on Roblox become.
A big challenge in making a Trolley-bendy-bus was figuring out the physics of the bus as a whole; ROBLOX costraints proved to be quite reliable and I'm really satisfied with the final result: CAM Busotto 18 UL in action with a little focus on the costraints!
#ROBLOXDev
#ROBLOX
With the introduction of aerodynamic forces, airplanes in Roblox will now fly through the air based on the shape of their wings (as they do in the physical world). Our foundation of real world simulation helps make creation more intuitive.
We're sharing our vision today around building a platform for all ages. And of course our initiatives to ensure a safe and civil environment for everyone.
We continue to make enormous progress on our platform. In the background, we are simultaneously working on a project this year to drive quality to new levels. Our User group dropped this video at our all hands today to highlight the project...
We intend to use our own infra to run AI on 100% of our public voice streams for safety and moderation. This innovation will support our focus on civility with extreme cost efficiency.
The science I've seen suggests a low carb diet can play a big role in diabetes and reduce the need for insulin. But a 25 % carb diet is a long way away from that. Why is the American Diabetes Association recommending this?
We're building an economy where anyone can create, sell and earn on our platform. Read more about the Marketplace vision and principles we have for helping creators build sustainable businesses on Roblox.
We just shipped Avatar Auto-Setup based on our AI platform. Input a humanoid mesh and our AI will rig/skin it for you. This includes not only the body but also the face, making your avatar ready for real-time facial animation.
We just finished Safety and Creator group reviews. We are now using ML to automate 98% of our civility scans on community-created 3D model objects - at lower cost and higher accuracy than humans.
The Mac is 40! I remember when the MacUser Editor's Choice Awards were like the Oscars - a live, black tie event w/Steve presenting. We won "Best Educational Software" with Interactive Physics, which simulated physics experiments and was an early inspiration for Roblox...
Mac changed everything when it was introduced 40 years ago, and through the years it has done so again and again and again. Today’s Mac lineup is the best in the history of the personal computer, and it’s built on decades of revolutionary innovation. Happy birthday Mac!
I'm proud of my son for spreading the word on the
@TODAYshow
about how
#keto
can help with mental health. Matt and my wife
@janellison
shared our family story today to hopefully help others. You can learn more on Matt's youtube Bipolarcast & the non-profit
@Metabolic_Mind
.
There is scientific evidence that the keto can help Type 2 diabetes and epilepsy. Now, some doctors suggest it can even be used as a tool to treat mental health.
@tvkatesnow
reports.
Great series of articles from
@RockPaperShot
highlighting the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of the
#Roblox
developer community. Can't wait to see what they have in store for 2020!
#RobloxDev
We're on track to deliver approximately $800 million to developers in 2023. We envision a platform where anyone can be a buyer, creator, seller, curator, or IP owner. More on our plans here...
Roblox’s economy is powered by creators. That’s why we’re working with them to provide them the tools and opportunities they need to share their work seamlessly with a global, interconnected platform. Read more about our vision in the link below.
Looking forward to the
@WSJ
Future of Everything Festival in NYC this May. I’ll be talking about the growth of
#Roblox
, our vision to connect the world through play, and the importance of fostering digital resilience. Hope to see you there!
#wsjfuturefest
Our guiding vision for almost two decades has been to create the safest and most civil community in the world. We built an ML system for voice chat that's more accurate than humans on detecting policy violations
At the a16z AI Revolution
@Tocelot
- “In what ways will AI impact games?
@DavidBaszucki
- “The better question is the antithesis… in what ways will it not?”
Today I shared some thoughts on Roblox's people and culture — the foundation of everything we do. We believe a diverse workforce with a range of skills, perspectives and backgrounds accelerates our culture of innovation. And that work is never done.
Thanks to the 700+ teams at Roblox that participated in Hack Week. We'll see many of these innovations in our platform over time. Stay tuned... Last year's here:
We just launched support for community creation of avatars (UGC). We expect to see the same diversity with avatars as we've seen with the amazing experiences created by the Roblox community.
As part of our vision to give creators more ways to build, innovate, and earn on Roblox, we are giving members of the existing UGC Program the ability to make their own full avatar bodies and heads for the Roblox Marketplace. Learn more:
We did our Q1 earnings call this morning. Proud of the team at Roblox, who continue to push innovation and our vision. We reported 19.4% year-on-year bookings growth, record free cash flow, and we exited the quarter with solid engagement growth in the US/Canada (and the world).
Today we opened up our immersive communication APIs to all creators -- allowing them to add calling to their experiences with audio, facial tracking, etc. Excited to see what they build with it...
The performance of our infrastructure drives growth. Our Roblox cloud supports over 2K services running across 24 core and edge data centers, connected with over 4 Tbps of bandwidth. More info on our architecture here...