Roblox Recruits 3 AI Founders to Push 2K 60 Hz Photorealistic Game Worlds
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Updated · about.roblox.com · May 20
Roblox Recruits 3 AI Founders to Push 2K 60 Hz Photorealistic Game Worlds
1 articles · Updated · about.roblox.com · May 20
Summary
Roblox said founders from Morpheus AI, Dynamics Lab and Lucid AI have joined to speed its Reality vision for playable photorealistic multiplayer worlds.
Morpheus AI brings Xun Huang’s “Self Forcing” method, which Roblox says turns slow offline video models into real-time interactive generation engines and helps tackle latency, consistency and visual quality.
Roblox plans a hybrid architecture in which Morpheus-style world models generate high-fidelity textures, lighting and physics while the Roblox Engine handles deterministic logic, memory and multiplayer state synchronization.
The company said its target is 2K resolution at 60 Hz, supported by moving its video model stack to nearby edge data centers using H200/B200-class GPUs and compression work.
The hires extend Roblox’s late-2025 AI push—Joe Chen of Dynamics Lab joined in late 2025 and Lucid AI founder Alberto Hojel joined in November—as the company chases photorealistic multiuser games.
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Overview
Roblox Reality is a new initiative that brings AI-powered photorealistic visuals directly into the Roblox engine, aiming to make the metaverse more immersive and lifelike. By using a hybrid architecture with a post-trained Video World Model, Roblox Reality allows creators to build highly complex and naturalistic elements, such as detailed grass, moving leaves, and realistic environmental effects. This technology is designed to elevate visual fidelity, empowering creators to craft richer experiences and pushing Roblox toward a new era of creativity and realism within its platform.