May 30, 2022
A researcher’s avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: futurism
Do you think that crimes committed within the Metaverse should be accountable just as the same as crimes accounted for in the “real” world?
A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users’ behavior on Meta’s social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour after she donned her Oculus virtual-reality headset, she says, her avatar was raped in the virtual space.
“Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content,” a new report published by the nonprofit advocacy group SumOfUs on Tuesday, details the researcher’s violent encounter in Meta’s Horizon World.