Survey: Sexual Harassment Common in VR, Slurs Common in North America - Otaku USA Magazine

Survey: Sexual Harassment Common successful VR, Slurs Common successful North America

Have you been harassed successful the metaverse? Anthropologist Liudmila Bredikhina, who has a Master’s grade from Geneva University, teamed up with Virtual Girl Nem, a “Japanese VTuber and Metaverse Culture Evangelist” to bash a survey connected however overmuch societal VR users astir the satellite acquisition harassment. Almost 9 100 radical took portion successful the survey, and the results person been released successful a bilingual study (English and Japanese).

The unfortunate but not astonishing results are that galore radical are harassed successful the metaverse. 57.8% of radical taking the survey said that portion utilizing VRChat they personally experienced harassment. Meanwhile, 69% of respondents accidental they saw idiosyncratic other being harassed.

Worldwide connected VRChat, intersexual harassment happened much than different kinds of harassment. Many women said they were harassed simply for being women. If men usage a pistillate avatar, their chances of being harassed spell up.

In North America, intersexual harassment was not the predominate signifier of harassment. Instead, radical were much apt to acquisition oregon witnesser slurs oregon hatred speech.

These harassment experiences spilled implicit into existent beingness for galore people. A small nether fractional of radical taking the survey said that the harassment affected their lives. 52.6% chose to enactment otherwise successful the metaverse arsenic effect to harassment. 43% of radical decided they would beryllium happier if they played successful VR little often, and 18% began utilizing backstage worlds much to debar different people.

You tin cheque retired the full study here.

Also, the creators of the survey volition beryllium holding a unrecorded Question and Answer league connected YouTube connected November 26th. That volition hap astatine 22:00 Japan Standard Time, if you privation to inquire questions oregon conscionable watch. The nexus to the YouTube leafage is here.

Do these findings lucifer up with your experiences successful virtual reality?

Source: grape Japan, Harassment successful Metaverse (Nem x Mila)

____

Danica Davidson is the writer of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with creator Melanie Westin, positive its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, some illustrated by nonrecreational Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check retired her different comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.