Daily Mail

I was 'gang raped' in the metaverse -the trauma was similar to a real-world assault

A woman has revealed she was 'virtually gang raped' by four male avatars in Meta's Horizon Worlds - and she said the trauma is similar to a real-world assault. Speaking to DailyMail.com, ...
The Independent

A young girl’s avatar was assaulted in the metaverse – what should be considered a crime in VR worlds?

‘Even though something may happen online, they’re real emotions ... the trauma can be experienced as real,’ says psychologist Dr Daris Kuss (Getty) Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the ...
BBC

Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing?

There was a time before ChatGPT when the tech world was talking about something entirely different. Remember the metaverse? For a while it dominated tech news. A virtual reality world that would be so ...
The Drum

Brands’ metaverse leads: where are they now?

Not so long ago, many brands were thoroughly fixated on this vague virtual world, a space that comprised both online gaming and virtual reality (VR) and that was typically conflated with ...
BBC

Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing?

For a while it dominated tech news. A virtual reality world that would be so immersive, so engaging, that we would want to spend part of our lives in it. Driving the metaverse narrative was Mark ...