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Roblox are doing steady incremental progress to their platform/engine.

Epic released Unreal Engine for Fortnite about one month ago.

Meta have some interesting stuff in their pipe.

I think that especially Roblox will shift how the younger generation view games, with more emphasis on social. It is their MMOs.

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Is Roblox really considered the metaverse? I feel like it's just an MMO with a game editor. Not that different than many other games with custom game editors. It feels like a stretch to call this a paradigm shift.

Well, Roblox is almost as metaverse as any metaverse. Metaverse is just a buzzword for MMO's with level editors, that are also supposedly selling land that's worth something, a good place for a corporate themepark and having business meetings with uncanny 3D avatars that sound like your colleagues.

At least my understanding was that popular definitions of metaverse include some type of “reality-based” technology like AR or VR.

Roblox supports VR.

Is it really much of a shift? Last I checked, Minecraft servers had done pretty well with the generation prior.

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