What happened with the researcher
Your new report- Metavors: Sumofus has shared this incident in ‘Aander Sepool of Toxic Content’. It is said that what happened when a young researcher tested the app. The researcher entered the app with a female avatar and was sexually harassed within about an hour. The report states that the researcher’s personal boundary feature was on, which he turned off. He was encouraged by other users to do this.
According to the report, the researcher was taken to a party running in the private room, where a user raped her. According to the report, the researcher was being asked to turn, so that the user could come from behind and the users outside the window could see all this. According to the report, there was another user in the room where all this was happening, who was passing the bottle of Vodka.
Due to the personal boundary feature disabled, the rest of the avatar on the app was able to touch the researcher virtually, causing the researcher’s hands to vibrate and she was feeling very badly badly.
Meta cleaning on case
In a conversation with Mail Online about this, Meta’s Spoxaperson has said that the researcher did not turn on the personal boundary feature. It is a kind of safety tool, which is defaulted on default and stops unknown people within the range of four feet of your avatar. The company’s Spoxaperson says that in the Horizon Worlds, unknown people live on a second of 4 feet. This makes it easier to avoid their unnecessary interactions. We do not recommend turning off this feature among such people.
Meta highlights in its app that many tools are offered to users to stay safe in the virtual world. It also includes ‘Safe Zoom button’. This allows those who are bothering you, as well as such people and content can be complied. However, experts have already criticized Meta on safety cases.
After a similar incident in December last year, a researcher Catherine Cross, a researcher associated with online harassment at Washington University, said that usually when companies talk about online abuses, she puts problems on users as a solution. She says that we have the power to take care of users.
What is Horizon Worlds
Meta released the Horizon Worlds in December last year. In this app, users can gather with the rest and play games and create a virtual world.
