VR enthusiasts often overlook VR’s darker sides: namely, the risk of unwanted interactions, which falls disproportionately on women and people of color.
a stranger groped her while interacting on Virtual Horizons, a metaverse platform operated by Meta, Facebook’s umbrella company. Meta’s internal review indicated the woman should have used the built-in “Safe Zone” security features.
In another case, researchers examined 11.5 hours of footage from VR chat, an application used in Facebook’s metaverse. Researchers identifiedof the company’s VR policies in that span. They included bullying and sexual harassment, as well as the grooming of minors. The team concluded these incidents happened about every seven minutes.
But while the metaverse is a new horizon for most online gamers, virtual sexual harassment is not a new issue. In one of VR harassment from 2016, a woman reported that while she navigated a virtual world, another player groped her chest and crotch, and chased her around the game, even after she told him to stop., she felt uncomfortable in the virtual world. She also believed it’d be difficult to moderate what happened in it. Instead of only screening text or images, moderators would have to look at aspects like in-game gestures and how people’s avatars moved.
One way to ensure women’s safety in the metaverse is to encourage women to enter the tech field, helping close the gender gap. Dr. Tarika Barrett is the, which has served more than 450,000 students worldwide. “We want to empower girls to shift the status quo,” said Barrett, “to pursue careers in tech and wield them as a force for good in the world, while also proudly building an exciting future for themselves.”Women may even be at a disadvantage in VR due to the required headsets.
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