The announcement was made at Roblox’s annual Developers Conference.
The company also stated that an open beta version launched earlier this year on Meta Quest was well-received.
The beta version, which made an unfinished version of the game available to players with a Quest 2 or Quest Pro headset, garnered more than one million downloads in its first five days, and the company stated it would be released on Quest later this month.
However, despite popular demand, a PlayStation version remained unreleased until today.
The launch’s specifics were scarce, although the company stated that players on past and current generation PlayStation consoles can “access the full catalogue of Roblox experiences.”
Connect, a mechanism that would allow players to call people in the game using their real identities, body language, and facial expressions, was also unveiled by Roblox.
The game will overlay users’ real-world expressions onto their in-game persona by aiming a camera at their actual faces.
The announcement was made at Roblox’s annual Developers Conference.
This motion-capture technology was first made accessible in August, but Roblox Connect is the company’s first attempt to link it with phoning pals.
The company stated in a blog post outlining the motion-capture technology available to gamers aged 13 and over.
Players must first permit the game to use their camera before it can be used. The firm stated in a privacy notice that it does not record or store anything obtained from a player’s camera and that “video from your camera never leaves your device.”
It is still being determined in which countries Roblox Connect will be available, and the company promises additional information will be released in the future.
SOURCE – (BBC)
