This week, we discuss how adding animated chats to Roblox will advance the company’s plan to enrich its virtual world.

Roblox Connect weaves Roblox's existing avatars, voice chat and camera-based facial animations together into a new product.

The feature, which is called Roblox Connect, will run on any device that already runs Roblox, provided that device has a camera. The feature uses 3D-animated avatars, not photorealistic video, and ...