Jordan Belamire has been sexually harassed three times, twice in reality, once in VR. Belamire played a game called QuiVr on his brother-in-law's HTC Vive VR system, and she used a pen name to protect privacy. In the QuiVr multiplayer mode he shot zombies with strangers, but another player began to touch her chest in the virtual world of the game. The 30-year-old Belamire said, “I have been violated in real life, one of which happened in Starbucks, and it is in broad daylight. I know what is going on. The shock and nausea I feel in QuiVr and the feeling in reality There is almost no difference." She was vocalized by harassment in VR, but she was accused of "self-seeking troubles" BigBro442 is another player in the game. He obviously realized that she is a woman because her microphone is on, so her voice can be transmitted to the virtual world. When BigBro442 began to harass her, Belamire shouted "Stop!". However, this makes things even worse. "He chased me and ran around my chest. After the guts got bigger, he even put his hand on my crotch (virtual) and began to rub," she gave last week. The incident was described in the email sent by the media. Belamire's mail caught a lot of attention on the Internet. What disturbed her the most was that some strangers told her that it was purely her own troubles. "Please explain how someone can be harassed in some form when using VR. This seems to be an unfounded complaint," which is a general view of Twitter users. The result of the incident was that Belamire temporarily cancelled her Twitter account. Belamire said, "People's doubts and counterattacks make me more uncomfortable than the events that happen in VR." "Sexual harassment of VR must be resolved quickly, or it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter." Sociologist and game critic Katherine Cross wrote in a paper titled "Robot Ethics" that "because it's not true, it doesn't matter - this is the basic idea of ​​ignoring morality in the game culture. It's far from hiding." Anonymity is so simple that this concept is the root cause of many gender harassment and ethnic issues on the web ." Other women have also described similar experiences when immersed in a virtual world in a foreign country. A woman described her experience of being violated in the virtual world in March: “I am still nervous and uncomfortable, and throwing away the helmet does not make that feeling disappear.†Sexual assault in the virtual world is really different from the real world – but that doesn't mean it won't make an impact. Video games are mostly developed by men, which makes the design concept of such games very likely not to take women into consideration. Entrepreneur and social activist Cindy Gallop compared such events with Twitter's problems caused by too many sprays. She wrote on Twitter that "the person who develops VR technology should never make mistakes made by Twitter. You should immediately remove such problems from the design source." "Death or Health" is controversial, VR needs to have a code of conduct Game developer Brianna Wu said in an interview, "The men who originally made these games didn't seem to understand that this behavior was sexual harassment. There were few women in these development teams, so there was no female voice." Wu refers to Playstation VR's "Dead or Alive Xtreme 3" as an example. The game allows users to harass virtual women who are wearing bikinis and are rebellious, beautifying sexual harassment. The Entertainment Software Rating Board assigns age and content ratings to video games, apps, and retail games, but this is a voluntary act that is not required on virtual reality portal platforms. Wu added, “No one wants to see the government to regulate the game industry. But the truth is, VR is a very powerful experience, and the human brain will feel like real.†Researchers Michael Madary and Thomas Metzinger from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz believe that "sometimes people will feel that their body is theirs." Madary and Metzinger suggest that VR needs to have a code of conduct because it is not yet sure what kind of psychological impact VR will have. Belamire said that the pair of hands holding her hands felt "very real." In the virtual world, human fingers can move in a very real way . VR chat room AltspaceVR introduces a personal bubble as a way to combat harassment in the virtual world. If the user launches this space, the rest of the virtual world must stay at least one foot away. QuiVr developer Blueteak said that QuiVr is also introducing this feature. Wu said: "This is a solution to a problem in the game, but we need industry standards." Currently, Oculus, HTC and Microsoft have not immediately responded to requests for comment. Measuring tool series,Cheap Tape Measuring,Original Laser Measuring Tape,Measure Steel Tape Henan Probon Tools CO.,LTD , https://www.tapemeasuretools.com
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