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Trips to virtual worlds are not always pleasant for women trying them out for the first time
She was visiting Meta's Horizon Worlds, its virtual-reality platform where anyone 18 or older can create an avatar and hang out. "And in virtual reality, if someone is close to you, then the voice sounds like someone is literally talking into your ear. And it took me aback.""I was talking to another lady and within minutes of us chatting a guy came up and started chatting to us and following us around saying inappropriate things and we had to block him," she said.She said while she wouldn't describe it as harassment, it was "creepy and awkward".
And in Meta's vision of the metaverse, where different rooms are run by different companies, the trade-off gets even more complex as people move out of the Meta-controlled virtual world into others. "To process visual information about an avatar or how close one is to another, that is going to be so expensive computationally, that is going to take up so much computer power, I don't know what technology can do that."
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