Woman Alleges She Was Groped -- Virtually -- Inside Mark Zuckerberg's "Meta" Virtual World

At first I wondered what she could mean -- there's no "Press X to Grope" button, surely.

But this is Zuck's stupid virtual world where you slip on VR goggles and VR gloves. So to "grope" someone, you'd just walk up to their avatar and use your virtual "hands" to squeeze their virtual "breasts" or "butt."

So you could do that.

Let's slip on our virtual reality goggles and enter ClownWorld and find out what's going on.

A beta tester for Meta's metaverse virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds says she was virtually groped in what may be the first allegation of its kind.

Meta revealed the allegation on Dec. 1, saying the alleged act occurred on Nov. 26. The woman reported the groping in a Facebook group associated with the beta test.

"Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in VR adds another layer that makes the event more intense," she wrote, the Verge reports.

Wait a minute, wait a gee-darn minute.

She's claiming that the fact that this happened in virtual reality, to a completely fake virtual body, makes this "more intense" than if it happened in real life to her real body?

Really?

ClownWorld.

"Not only was I groped last night, but there were other people there who supported this behavior which made me feel isolated in the Plaza." The "Plaza" is a virtual social hub within the metaverse.

Did they really support it, though? Based on the obviously-untrue claim she's made about this being worse than a real case of sexual assault, I don't think I can take her word for how others were behaving.

I tend to think she was behaving hysterically and they maybe did not fully support her hysterias which she is now misreporting as "supporting" the guy who virtually groped her.

Vivek Sharma, Meta's vice president of Horizon, called the incident "absolutely unfortunate." Meta reviewed the incident and says that the woman did not use certain built-in safety features, including the ability to block users.

Meanwhile, the hunt for the virtual molester goes on.

Uh, no, update! They found him.

User name: BrandonDaGreat696969.

posted by Ace at 03:52 PM

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