Roblox

includes Roblox Studio, Roblox Code Assist, Roblox Material Generator

12 statements across 5 episodes · 9 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2018 by Andrew Chen · said 46 times in 14 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jonathan Lai (18), David Baszucki (6), Andrew Chen (4), Doug McCracken (3), Peter Yang (2), Neal Stephenson (2), Marc Andreessen (2), Balaji Srinivasan (2)

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Dec 8, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Minecraft and Roblox Combine Social Networks With Content Platforms
“Minecraft, Roblox, these are virtual worlds that sort of bake both a social network and a content platform all into one.”
Andrew Chen Dec 8, 2018 ▶ 21:55 What's Next in Consumer Startups?
Jun 7, 2019 positive
Insight
Chen: Game studios build network effects via competition, streaming, and UGC
“E-sports and sort of this tournament play and, you know, the competitive aspect, that's one version of this. Being able to create a streamable thing, which then, you know, has a community around you know, your whole product, that's another version of this. And…”
Andrew Chen Jun 7, 2019 ▶ 31:10 What's Next for Esports Startups
Nov 22, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stephenson: Major game ecosystems will build cross-platform metaverse bridges in coming years
“I suspect that they're talking to one another about how do we build a bridge from our game or our experience to your game so that a person could go from one to the other. It may take some years to really come together, but I think it will come together.”
Neal Stephenson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 8:53 Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Opinion
Stephenson: Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft are closest to real metaverse experiences
“I think that the closest things that we currently can see to metaverse-like experiences are games like Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, where you've got a bunch of people running around in a space.”
Neal Stephenson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 8:03 Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Roblox operates hundreds of thousands of custom servers for 3D simulation.
“We for a long time really focused on building our own infrastructure. We have hundreds of thousands of servers, many, many edge data centers, terabits of connectivity that we've traditionally used for three D simulation.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 6:58 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baszucki says Roblox will provide free AI inference to its creators.
“That the more we can run inference jobs on these, we can run super high volume inference at high quality at low cost and make this, you know, just freely available so the creators don't worry about it.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 7:18 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Baszucki predicts virtual historical worlds will be populated primarily by AI NPCs.
“You'll go to ancient Rome and most of the people you'll interact with will be historically as good as we can create representations to enrich in that experience.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 18:09 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Sep 25, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roblox has five billion hours of opted-in 3D human interaction data.
“How would we take the five billion hours of human opted in data, what we're saying, how we're moving, where we go together, how we work in a three D environment.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 8:44 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Sep 25, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Roblox is experimenting with an internal simulation of its corporate office.
“So we have a simulation of the Roblox office that we're playing around with inside of Roblox.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 1:22 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Sep 25, 2023
Disclosure
Roblox requires its 3D engineers to test on low-end Android devices.
“All of our three D engineers are working on crappy Android devices as their primary test device”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 20:11 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Baszucki predicts AI will generate unique 3D game experiences in real time.
“Okay, I'm making the super Dungeons and Dragons thing, but as it watches you play, and maybe we know your history, you're, you'll be playing a three-D experience that Snow has ever seen before.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 6:35 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Jun 19, 2024 neutral
Insight
Chen: User-generated gaming platforms face same regulatory scrutiny as social media
“A lot of the most interesting new platforms like you know, UEFN and Roblox, which are user generated, you know, content platforms, you know, all the metaverse work that's also happening as well. You know, all of those kind of fall into user generate, you know,…”
Andrew Chen Jun 19, 2024 ▶ 19:34 Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
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