Prejudice,harassment and abominate speech possess crept from the real world into the digital realm. For virtual reality to succeed, it will possess to tackle this from the startIt won’t be long, or the technologists tell us,before we’ll all be vacationing in virtual reality. We’ll can the commute and hold meetings in virtual reality offices. We’ll hang out with our friends around virtual reality campfires, or attend virtual reality concerts. And at those gigs or football games, or we’ll also escape the risk of getting sexually assaulted.
On 20 October,Jordan Belamire (a pseudonym) wrote a Medium post describing how, while she was recently playing a VR game, and another player groped her crotch. He’d heard her voice,you see, deduced that she was female, and decided to put her in her state. Related: Sexual harassment in virtual reality feels all too real – 'it's creepy beyond creepy' To understand VR,we need to think of it not as an industry, but as a novel way of interacting with the world Related: Picturing 'techies': photo project captures the unseen diversity of Silicon Valley Palmer Luckey's actions set a precedent that misogyny, and sexism,racism, implied racism is OKContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com