New Feature Against Harassment Arrived in Metaverse

Recently, a woman who was the vice president of a company working on the metaverse said that Meta’s Horizon Venues mere minutes after entering the metaverse universe, by the three men on the platform, both verbally and physically. to harassment he had declared. Before that, another woman working in the beta version of the platform said that she was harassed in a similar way; about the metaverse, which even those who built the system cannot grasp what it means for humanity. security questions had greatly increased.

After these scandalous events, Meta added a new feature to the system against virtual harassment. The company, which wants to stop such events, has avatars in Horizon. ‘personal limit’ system announced.

Virtual personal space feature will be the ‘default’ feature of the system

Avatars already exist on the platform, raise your hand when another avatar gets too close to you. ‘Stop’ There was a feature that made you say; However, the events have proven that this feature alone is unfortunately not enough. With the new feature that will exist ‘by default’ from Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues platforms, avatars now allow other people to approach them by creating an invisible virtual barrier around them. able to prevent it’s going to be possible.

60 cm security straps

According to the statement from Meta, the feature in which a virtual personal area radius of approximately 60 cm is given to each avatar; means there will be about 1.2 meters distance between avatars. For the system, which aims to establish standard norms for how people interact in a virtual reality environment, Meta spokesperson Kristina Milian says users can disable personal boundaries. you can’t let go states. Of course, with the changes to be made in the future, the distance of people to other avatars can be adjusted according to their wishes. ability to customize it could be the subject.

According to the new feature, when an avatar tries to walk or teleport into your personal space, this movement of the avatar will show you where your avatar is in. virtual personal space bubble will be stopped by In contrast, Millian states that a user can still walk past another user and that virtual personal space balloons cannot be used for ‘pranks’ such as blocking entrances.