A woman has said she was virtually “gang raped” in the Metaverse and that it felt like real life.

Woman claims she was virtually gang raped in Metaverse
Nina Jane Patel, the vice president of research for a rival metaverse company, claims she was “verbally and sexually harassed” and even “virtually gang raped” by a group of men within 60 seconds of logging into “Horizon Venues”, a VR world owned by Meta (formerly Facebook).

Horizon Worlds allows you to meet friends and strangers in a virtual world, where you have a digital avatar version of your body that moves as you do.

Though it allows you to chat to people, play games, and be immersed in the experience, it also has a dark side, as Patel’s experience shows.

Narrating her experience, Patel said: “3-4 male avatars, with male voices, essentially, but virtually gang raped my avatar and took photos—as I tried to get away they yelled—’don’t pretend you didn’t love it’ and ‘go rub yourself off to the photo’.”

She added that she was “not accustomed to be spoken to in such derogatory ways, maybe back in 1996, but certainly not in 2021.”

Horizon Worlds has a feature called “Safe Zone”, which allows users to activate a protective bubble where nobody can interact with them, touch them or talk to them.

Unfortunately, Patel said that she froze, and that it “happened so fast and before I could even think about putting the safety barrier in place.”

Virtual harassment of women is common in many online spaces, but the fact that the Metaverse is in VR adds a physicality to the issue, and having a virtual body in the metaverse can make things feel a lot more real.

Patel said that: “Virtual reality has essentially been designed so the mind and body can’t differentiate virtual/digital experiences from real.

“In some capacity, my physiological and psychological response was as though it happened in reality.”

Back in December, another meta tester of Horizon Worlds claimed her avatar was groped by a stranger.

She said: “Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in VR adds another layer that makes the event more intense.
“Not only was I groped last night, but there were other people there who supported this behaviour which made me feel isolated in the Plaza.”
A spokesperson for Meta said: “Horizon Venues should be safe, and we are committed to building it that way.
“We will continue to make improvements as we learn more about how people interact in these spaces, especially when it comes to helping people report things easily and
reliably.”

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The secound comming of sodom in our time.

I find this fuc*ing hilarious ... Virtually raped, can she also get virtually pregnant?

The woman na werey o

Women and drama.
Coochie matters

Dem never launch project, e still dey testing stage this vagina people have started with their madness. Next one go be domestic "vawulence" now. Mumu people

The world is going bananas

They will soon introduce virtual police because of women.

They are investing in the virtual world early with the me too tactic.


Dem rape you for VR and you couldnt remove the VR device from your coconut head ... you instead enjoyed the experience and came to cry after you realised that there is potential to trend with such topic ...FOHH

This is all shades of wrong! We are trying to fight rape in the physical world and some idiots are moving it to the virtual space? haba!

Wahala gidi leleyi o

Nawa o! Been raped virtually when you can disconnect or log out. Is she trying to advertise the app for being near to reality or the usual victim card?

Wahala dey come

Holly Gram WTF MAN

Tooh, I will pretend to understand

wetin we no go see for metaverse

virtually i was raped, i was virtually raped... all na English sha

That dramatic gender

WTF?

This is so hilarious!!!

Na virtual court on metaverse go handle this one be that

See metaverse rapists

Crappy promotion Mr Zuckerberg.

Anyone who signs up for this jewish matrix deserves to raped of all their shekels.

Imagine signing away your life to live in a Jewish simulated hell hole

This is a very weird one. Lalasticlala

I'm short of word


Dem feminists dem do kolo