Roblox to add voice chat feature with 'Spatial Voice' to enhance user experience

A popular gaming platform called Roblox is planning to add voice chat into core experience that it offers. To do so, Roblox has already invited a group of trusted developers in order to test and explore scope of proximity-based audio into gaming experiences such as vibe games and ors. With added feature, Gamers will be able to use live Roblox Voice chat to communicate with or players nearby. Keep reading to kw more about spatial audio in Roblox. 

Roblox to add spatial voice feature, trusted developers testing feature 

Spatial voice in Roblox or proximity-based audio output will unlock a new experience for users. Users playing toger or simply hanging out on platform will be able to distinguish between sounds from ir environment based on ir loudness which ultimately will depend upon distance between source and listener. As mentioned earlier, company has invited a group of 5,000 developers to try out and explore new opportunities with Spatial voice in Roblox in a custom community in Roblox. Those wondering about how to use voice chat in Roblox, feature is in testing phase and only available for developers. 

new Roblox voice chat option will have feature of reporting, clocking or muting or players. platform also allows parents to set up any -appropriate experiences and or permissions. According to company, a significant number of users on platform are eir below 13 or in range of 17 to 24 years of . In order to deliver best experience, company plans to rely on user-initiated blocking and reporting, and a digital reputation system, which will restrict users who have a certain number of reports against m. 

On an official blog post dated September 2, 2021, Manuel Bronstein, Roblox Chief Product Officer says that "Virtual communication will also be subject to same forms of natural moderation that exist in real world."

Bronstein adds that "se principles have led to today’s release of Spatial Voice as an invitation-only beta to selected members of our developer community. We hope to collaborate with our community to evolve Spatial Voice to make it realistic, safe, and easy for developers to integrate across all Roblox experiences. With Spatial Voice, Roblox creators will begin to test developing experiences where conversations can happen in a realistic way, mirroring how we listen and respond to world around us each day."

How to enable spatial voice in Roblox?

According to support p of Roblox, Spatial Voice is in its initial testing phase and platform is inviting eligible users through a Private Mess on ir Roblox accounts with information on how to participate in Spatial Voice (Beta). Initially, Spatial Voice (Beta) will only be available in “Roblox Community ” experience. Developers will eventually be able to enable Spatial Voice (Beta) in ir own experiences. At that time, eligible users in Spatial Voice (Beta) will receive a tification when y join an experience that has enabled voice chat.