Metaverse: Woman Cries Out About Being “Virtually Gang-Raped”
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A woman has spoken up about a terrible experience where she was “virtually gang-raped” in the metaverse
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Psychotherapists Nina Patel claims that her avatar was attacked by those of 4 people in the virtual world and sexually assaulted
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Patel claims that her virtual rapists had male voices and took photos of the incident
A woman has cried out about being virtually attacked and sexually assaulted during her first visit to the metaverse.
Nina Jane Patel, a psychotherapist who is the vice president of research at a metaverse company claims that she was virtually gang-raped within 60 seconds of logging into “Horizon Venues”, a virtual world owned by Facebook’s Meta.
According to Patel, 3 to 4 male avatars with male voices sexually assaulted her and took photos of the incident.
Patel claims that as she tried to get away the virtual rapists yelled- “don’t pretend you didn’t love it”.
Meta’s horizon world allows users to meet friends and strangers in its virtual world, where each user is provided with an avatar that mimics their body movement.Although this is commonly used by people to chat, play games, and enjoy the immersed experience, shocking incidents such as this happen from time to time.
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Horizon Worlds VR world however has a feature called “Safe Zone” that brings a protective bubble between you and other users when activated.
Unfortunately, Patel claims that the traumatic incident caused her to freeze and she forgot to activate the feature.
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