Anti-rape field

Our world is going in a very strange direction indeed. Nina Jane Patel, an employee of Kabuni, a company that advocates for a safer Metaverse, had a very unpleasant experience less than a minute after putting on her VR glasses and joining the virtual world of the game Horizon Worlds. As soon as she entered the virtual world, three or four avatars with a male voice approached her, started insulting her, then allegedly gang-raped her, and photographed them all. When she tried to run away, they started shouting that she was just pretending that she didn't like it and that she should "enjoy" the photos at home.

Of course, Nina was not silent about the event and at the end of December she described everything in an article she published on the website Medium, and also informed Meto/Facebook about everything. Since it was clearly not an isolated case, Meta decided to try to prevent such events or at least mitigate them. Until now, the game has had the option of defining "personal space", or the distance to which other players can approach your avatar, but it was necessary to include it separately, which many, especially newcomers like Nina, did not do, because they did not know that the problem was so acute. Well, it won't be like that anymore. Namely, Meta has started to introduce Personal Boundary, a personal boundary that acts as a kind of security field, which by default does not allow other avatars to get closer than a good meter (4 feet) to yours.

This kind of boundary is probably a really good way to prevent "physical" harassment, but nothing helps against verbal harassment, which will be much more difficult to prevent or at least mitigate.

Source: Oculus, Medium

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