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Meta has announced the addition of a “personal boundaries” feature to its Horizon Worlds virtual reality space. This is reported by the Oculus blog.
Such measures had to be resorted to after complaints from one of the users about the “sexual harassment” of avatars that dirtyly pestered her in the metaverse. The company said in a statement that, thanks to the new feature, avatars will maintain a distance of 1.2 meters, creating more privacy for the user and preventing any unwanted interactions.
Personal Frontiers goes live today in Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues. The company added that it is impossible to disable the new feature, but later it will be possible to change the length of the distance. In which direction, they did not specify.
Earlier, 43-year-old Londoner Nina Jane Patel said that she was “almost abused” in the metaverse. According to her, this happened as soon as she entered the virtual world. Four male avatars ran up to Nina, who began to say nasty things to her, and then “raped her and took some pictures.”
After that, Patel also faced aggression in the comments. They wrote to her that “all this is not real” and you could simply not choose a female avatar.
Source: Rosbalt
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