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A woman was 'virtually raped' by a stranger in Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse app while another user 'watched and passed around a bottle of vodka'. SumOfUs, a non-profit that campaigns to curb the growing power of corporations, sent a 21-year-old researcher into the virtual world this month.
About an hour into using the platform, her avatar was sexually assaulted during a 'disorientating and confusing experience'. The researcher, who is unnamed, said: 'It happened so fast I kind of disassociated. One part of my brain was like wtf is happening, the other part was like this isn't a real body, and another part was like, this is important research.'
Meta spokesperson highlighted that the researcher did not have the Personal Boundary feature on – a safety tool that's turned on by default and prevents non-friends from coming within four feet of your avatar.
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About an hour into using the platform, her avatar was sexually assaulted during a 'disorientating and confusing experience'. The researcher, who is unnamed, said: 'It happened so fast I kind of disassociated. One part of my brain was like wtf is happening, the other part was like this isn't a real body, and another part was like, this is important research.'
Meta spokesperson highlighted that the researcher did not have the Personal Boundary feature on – a safety tool that's turned on by default and prevents non-friends from coming within four feet of your avatar.
Woman, 21, is 'virtually RAPED' by a stranger in Meta's metaverse app
A researcher from SumOfUs went in to Horizon Worlds with a female-appearing and female-sounding avatar, and was sexually assaulted within an hour, according to a report.
