{"id":4303,"date":"2022-01-10T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/vr-worlds-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anywhere-else-online\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:38:30","slug":"vr-worlds-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anywhere-else-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/vr-worlds-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anywhere-else-online\/","title":{"rendered":"VR worlds are no better or worse than anywhere else online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Given endemic online toxicity, it is hard to see how VR worlds can be made pleasant and safe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/09\/uk-data-watchdog-seeks-talks-with-meta-over-child-protection-concerns\">UK data watchdog seeks talks with Meta over child protection concerns<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Until 2019, virtual reality was an absolute faff to use. It was expensive and tethered by cables to expensive PCs, but the wireless and easy-to-use Oculus Quest has changed that. Once the headset is on you can browse from a few hundred apps and games designed for VR, many of which are social spaces designed for chatting to other people. VRChat is one of several, and the most popular, partly because it is intriguingly wild and random.<\/p>\n<p>Some VR spaces \u2013 including Meta\u2019s Horizon \u2013 attempt a kind of calming, sanitised, futuristic look, with soft colours and cartoonish humanoids. VRChat is a total mishmash, dominated by anime aesthetics: neon cities, cat ears, big-busted, scantily clad 2D women, and of course furries (that\u2019s sexualised anthropomorphic cartoon animals, for anyone fortunate enough not to know).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/10\/vr-worlds-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anywhere-else-online\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/69f57286c89bff1de9bfb04c762606234756c3b7\/0_235_3497_2098\/master\/3497.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4eba4ec2635e02e05d3db86859e49a7d\" title=\"VR worlds are no better or worse than anywhere else online\" \/>Analysis: Given endemic online toxicity, it is hard to see how VR worlds can be made pleasant and safe<br \/>\nUK data watchdog seeks talks with Meta over child protection concerns<br \/>\nUntil 2019, virtual reality was an absolute faff to use. It was expensive and tethered by cables to expensive PCs, but the wireless and easy-to-use Oculus Quest has changed that. Once the headset is on you can browse from a few hundred apps and games designed for VR, many of which are social spaces designed for chatting to other people. VRChat is one of several, and the most popular, partly because it is intriguingly wild and random.<br \/>\nSome VR spaces \u2013 including Meta\u2019s Horizon \u2013 attempt a kind of calming, sanitised, futuristic look, with soft colours and cartoonish humanoids. VRChat is a total mishmash, dominated by anime aesthetics: neon cities, cat ears, big-busted, scantily clad 2D women, and of course furries (that\u2019s sexualised anthropomorphic cartoon animals, for anyone fortunate enough not to know). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Given endemic online toxicity, it is hard to see how VR worlds can be made pleasant and safe UK data watchdog seeks talks with Meta over child protection concerns Until 2019, virtual reality was an absolute faff to use. It was expensive and tethered by cables to expensive PCs, but the wireless and easy-to-use &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/vr-worlds-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anywhere-else-online\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VR worlds are no better or worse than anywhere else online<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}