In our world the idea of ​​personal space is ingrained from a young age and is primarily imposed by unspoken personal contract and hidden social pressure.

While in the world of virtual reality (Metaverse), “Meta”, the parent company of Facebook, has turned to create a program to impose a 4-foot-diameter space as a personal space for each avatar in its social spaces.

As detailed in SourceThe Meta Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues spaces now include virtual character boundaries that prevent avatars from getting too close to one another, establishing a greater personal space for people and making it easier to avoid unwanted interactions.

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Invisibly, the system sets up an invisible cylinder with a radius of 2 feet surrounding each avatar, if the user’s movement causes two cylinders to overlap, the system will stop the movement and direct them forward when they reach the border

Without any other public feedback.

The sexual assault incident and the reaction of the Meta company:

The new announcement comes a few days after a New York Times article published an article that drew attention to the problem of sexual harassment and assault in the world of virtual reality.

This is what we discussed in a previous article on Arab Bitcoin, entitled:

A woman was sexually harassed in the metaverse! Here are the details of the incident

But the overall issue is much older, as there have been many public complaints of virtual harassment since at least 2016.

As in early December, The Verge reported that one of the Horizon testers in its beta version stated the following:

I was touched in the Facebook metaverse by a stranger and there are other people supporting this behavior which made me feel isolated in the arena.

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A Facebook representative said that the unfortunate incident occurred because the beta version did not use built-in security features, including the ability to block problem users.

Meta’s recent announcement of personal space points to eliminating the harassment that is currently taking place.

In any case, the limits of virtual personal space should finally help reduce the problem of unwanted virtual touch in the “meta” world, after years of identifying the problem at large.

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But the new policy will do little to curb other forms of virtual reality harassment that don’t require proximity.

As Andrew Bosworth of Meta told the aforementioned source:

Modifying the toxic environment in virtual reality on any meaningful scale is practically impossible.

This is because virtual reality is an extension of the real world, which continues to suffer from such harassment throughout the ages, despite the legal controls.

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