Recently, a woman was sexually assaulted by a stranger in the meta universe, which attracted widespread attention. The victim was a 21-year-old woman who created a female virtual image in the meta meta universe game horizon world and wanted to complete relevant research by experiencing the "meta universe".
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In less than an hour, she was "sexually assaulted" by a male virtual character. At that time, another bystander was booing her.
A spokesperson of meta pointed out that meta had not seen the complete report of sumofus, a non-profit organization, and said that the company hoped that everyone in horizon world would have access to safety procedures "and help us investigate and take action".
Horizon world is currently only open to users in the United States and Canada. On this platform, users have a simple and cartoon virtual image.
Sumofus said that the incident showed that meta needs better plans to reduce the infringement in the metauniverse, and pointed out that virtual attacks may also cause strong trauma to people.