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Female avatar sexually assaulted in Meta VR platform, campaigners say
The metaverse refers to a virtual world where people can live, work and play via an avatar. Tech companies are investing billions of dollars into developing the technology and creators, marketers, advertisers are jumping on the bandwagon to explore new business opportunities even though there still are only a few metaverse platforms available. In 3D virtual environments, users can experience the environment, engage in activities, and interact with others through their avatars. This virtual world allows users to enjoy activities they can’t actually or physically do in the real world. This could mean one can harass or intimidate others like an SNS but much more realistically. True. Though metaverse is virtual, it offers real-time engagement with others. Meta, former Facebook which offers a metaverse platform, has safeguards in its virtual worlds called Personal Boundary, which prevents avatars that are not on the friends’ list from coming within a set distance, currently 1.2 meters. But no safeguard is 100% safe. And what happened to a female researcher was …
Read the article and learn about what harassment in a virtual world is like.
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