Blog
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RDC 2022: Our Vision for the Future of Roblox
At the Roblox Developers Conference (RDC), kicking off today at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, thousands of top 3D artists, programmers, builders, and content creators are gathering—in person and virtually on Guilded—to network and disco...
| September 09, 2022 -
Spotlight on Roblox Research
Showcasing some of the leaders of the Roblox Research team as they accelerate our mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
| August 09, 2022 -
Introducing Custom Material Variants and New Enhancements to Materials
Our upgraded material system provides creators with new, out-of-the-box capabilities to enhance and customize the look and feel of their content.
| July 20, 2022 -
Why Content Creators Are Moving from 2D Screens to 3D Worlds
Roblox’s vision is to reimagine the way people come together to create, learn, play, work and socialize. We are creating a platform for immersive human co-experience, and people all over the world are participating and contributing millions of 3D e...
| June 23, 2022 -
Delivering Large-Scale Platform Reliability
Showcasing a quality-oriented process for achieving higher reliability in microservices acting together to improve the platform.
| April 28, 2022 -
Layers of Genius Behind Layered Clothing
A breakthrough in 3D realism took years of labor – and a little rocket science.
| April 04, 2022 -
Real Time Facial Animation for Avatars
Our deep learning framework for regressing facial animation controls from video that both addresses challenges and opens us up to a number of future opportunities.
| March 22, 2022 -
Designing a Mouse Pointer for a Digital Metaverse
How Roblox designs mouse pointers for a seamless virtual experience.
| February 01, 2022 -
2021 Year in Review — A Letter from Our CEO
It’s been an extraordinary year for our global Roblox community of users, developers, and employees. We continued to advance our technology to enable deeper forms of communication, immersion, and expression in line with our vision to reimagine the ...
| January 24, 2022 -
Roblox Return to Service 10/28-10/31 2021
Starting October 28th and fully resolving on October 31st, Roblox experienced a 73-hour outage.
| January 20, 2022 -
Avatars and Identity in the Metaverse, Part 2
In Part 2 of his analysis of avatar and identity, Nameer Hirschkind, Roblox Data Science Intern, investigates how users’ real-life identifiers intersect with their Roblox identities.
| December 07, 2021 -
Unleashing Creator Productivity with Open Cloud
Empowering our developers with the tools and freedom they need to build the next generation of incredible experiences.
| November 04, 2021 -
An Update on Our Outage
We recently experienced an extended outage across our platform. Learn more about the outage and steps taken to address it.
| October 31, 2021 -
Bring Your Dynamic Self to The Metaverse with Layered Clothing
Our VP of Product, Avatar Bjorn Book-Larsson showcases the past and future technological advancements that continue to elevate how we express ourselves in the metaverse.
| October 21, 2021 -
RDC 2021: Updates on Roblox’s Vision and the Path Forward
Roblox CTO Daniel Sturman gives a peek behind the curtain at our 2021 Roblox Developers Conference. In this article, he shares several exciting updates about the platform and revisits all of the advancements we’ve made throughout the year.
| October 14, 2021 -
Avatars and Identity in the Metaverse, Part 1
In Sanskrit, avatar (अवतार) refers to “an incarnation in human form.” In Roblox, few things reflect a user’s identity more directly than their avatar. As we’ll discover, there is no “standard” Roblox user, and the fantastical ae...
| October 13, 2021 -
Causal Inference Using Instrumental Variables
Data Scientists often find themselves repeating the mantra “Correlation is not causation.” It’s a good thing to remind our stakeholders — and ourselves — constantly because data can be treacherous, and because the human mind can’t help bu...
| September 27, 2021