{"id":1281496,"date":"2022-02-08T06:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1281496"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:53:07","slug":"meta-adding-personal-boundary-to-vr-avatars-to-stop-virtual-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-adding-personal-boundary-to-vr-avatars-to-stop-virtual-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Adding \u2018Personal Boundary\u2019 To VR Avatars To Stop Virtual Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeta-adding-personal-boundary-to-vr-avatars-to-stop-virtual-sexual-harassment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1281496&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1271342419-e1644336917272-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>In a bid to prevent virtual harassment, Meta announced that they will be adding a \u201cpersonal boundary\u201d system to its Horizon virtual reality platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This announcement follows a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20211227\/16032748188\/grope-metas-space.shtml\"><span>complaint<\/span><\/a><span> by one user in December, who described experiencing sexual harassment in virtual reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI would like a personal bubble that will force people away from my avatar and I would like to be able to upload my own recording with my harassment ticket. I would also like that all guides are given sensitivity training on this specific subject, so they will understand what is expected. If META won\u2019t give guides tools that will allow them to remove a player immediately from a situation, at least train them to deal with it and not run away,\u201d the user wrote last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cToday, we\u2019re announcing Personal Boundary for Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues,\u201d Meta said in an Oculus <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/introducing-a-personal-boundary-for-horizon-worlds-and-venues\"><span>blog post<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cPersonal Boundary prevents avatars from coming within a set distance of each other, creating more personal space for people and making it easier to avoid unwanted interactions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPersonal Boundary will begin rolling out today everywhere inside of Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues, and will by default make it feel like there is an almost 4-foot distance between your avatar and others,\u201d the announcement continued. \u201cOver time, we\u2019ll continue to make improvements as we learn how this affects people\u2019s experiences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA Personal Boundary prevents anyone from invading your avatar\u2019s personal space. If someone tries to enter your Personal Boundary, the system will halt their forward movement as they reach the boundary. You won\u2019t feel it \u2014 there is no haptic feedback,\u201d Meta explained. \u201cThis builds upon our existing hand harassment measures that were already in place, where an avatar\u2019s hands would disappear if they encroached upon someone\u2019s personal space.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are intentionally rolling out Personal Boundary as always on, by default, because we think this will help to set behavioral norms \u2014 and that\u2019s important for a relatively new medium like VR. In the future, we\u2019ll explore the possibility of adding in new controls and UI changes, like letting people customize the size of their Personal Boundary,\u201d the blog post continued. \u201cNote that because Personal Boundary is the default experience, you\u2019ll need to extend your arms to be able to high-five or fist bump other people\u2019s avatars in Horizon Worlds or in Horizon Venues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cVirtual reality can and should be for everyone. And we\u2019re constantly working to improve people\u2019s experience in VR, gathering feedback from the community to inform our work as we continue to iterate and make improvements,\u201d the post concluded. \u201cWe believe Personal Boundary is a powerful example of how VR has the potential to help people interact comfortably. It\u2019s an important step, and there\u2019s still much more work to be done. We\u2019ll continue to test and explore new ways to help people feel comfortable in VR.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span> @ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to prevent virtual harassment, Meta announced that they will be adding a \u201cpersonal boundary\u201d system to its Horizon virtual reality platforms.This announcement follows a complaint by one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}