By akademiotoelektronik, 18/12/2022

With the online sights of sight, Roblox wants to introduce video games to school

Roblox has just announced an investment of $ 10 million for the development of three education video games for classrooms.A strategy that will in particular allow him to play a role in the deployment of the metarers.

Non -profit games

The company, whose free platform is available on mobiles and Xbox, wants to develop games for college, high school and universities worldwide classes.One of them will be interested in robotics, the second in space exploration and the last will allow students to explore careers and concepts in computer science, engineering and biomedical sciences, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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"It is a vision since we created the company more than sixteen years ago to have this type of experience.We have always had this educational context in mind, ”says David Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, the largest American pure play video game company in terms of market capitalization.The platform, which offers millions of games and other activities developed by its own users, currently has 47 million active users, half of whom are under thirteen years.

The three games are designed by non -profit organizations like the Boston Science Museum or a small studio specializing in educational games.

Daring bet

It is a daring bet on the part of Roblox;If video games have been present in certain classrooms for many years like The Oregon Trail or an educational version of Minecraft, they are often perceived negatively by legislators and parents.Moreover, addiction to video games is considered a disorder by the World Health Organization (WHO).

They can nevertheless lead to a further commitment from students.For this, "they must commit to respecting rigorous educational content and rigorous confidentiality and security practices", explains Jim Steyer, founder of Common Sense Media, a group that promotes the security of technologies and media forchildren.

With this in mind, Roblox provides employing a team of more than 3,000 people to control game safety, using a combination of artificial intelligence and human moderators.Teachers can also create private groups so that students only play between them.

Considered a first iteration of the metarers, the Roblox platform allows you to attend virtual concerts.Image: Roblox

Metavers objective

Also, education is considered to be one of the angular stones of the metarers, the Internet of the future in which users will be able to navigate in the form of avatars through virtual reality and augmented reality tools.For example, students will have the opportunity to visit historic monuments that will have the same appearance as when they have been built.

The Roblox platform is already considered a first iteration of the metarers, because it allows its users to interact in the form of avatars and to teleport virtually from one game to another, but also to participateto virtual events such as concerts or projections of series episodes.The firm recently presented many new features aimed at improving its metarers, and it is obvious that the development of educational games is part of its plans to achieve it.

It is certain that the potential of the metarers is immense in many areas, and education is of course part.Nevertheless, its deployment will raise important security questions in particular, and major players in the sector will be scrutinized closely in order to know if they will take the necessary measures to avoid excesses.