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Meta ‘Personal Boundary’ – Deterring Virtual Harassment

In a blog recently posted on Oculus.com, Meta is introducing a "personal boundary" approach into its Horizon virtual reality experiences, with the goal of preventing harassment in the virtual world. In real-life, the concept of space and privacy is taught among youngsters and maintained mostly through unwritten interpersonal agreements and indirect societal influences. In the field of the virtual environment, on either side, Facebook parent Meta has been imposing a 4-foot "personal space" barrier for each avatar in its metaverse-style...

METAVERSE: TREND OR FUTURE?

Last week, the technology world was agitated when Facebook officially announced the change of the company name Facebook Inc. into Meta and aim to build its own metaverse virtual universe. According to a Reuters report, giant SoftBank recently poured another $93 million into another NFT game company. It's Sandbox, a Hong Kong-based NFT gaming platform that allows players to build virtual worlds with non-fungible tokens (NFTs).  "We are creating this open metaverse. We are positioning The Sandbox against those giant tech companies...