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Meta adds personal boundary to VR avatars to stop sexual harassment

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The Metaverse may also see people being sexually harassed through virtual avatars, and the social network has now published “personal boundaries” that prevent avatars from staying a certain distance from each other, making it easier to avoid unwanted interactions.

Meta has announced the “personal boundaries” feature of the Horizon​​n Worlds and Horizon​​n Venues virtual reality (VR) systems.

By default, the feature makes it feel like there’s nearly four feet between your avatar and other people.

“Over time, we will continue to make improvements as we understand how this affects people’s experience,” said Vivek Sharma, vice president of Horizon​​n.

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If someone tries to enter your personal border, the system will stop their progress when they reach the border.

“You won’t feel it — there’s no haptic feedback. This builds on our existing hand harassment measures, where the avatar’s hand disappears if they invade someone’s personal space,” Sharma said in a post The blog post said Friday night.

Sharma thinks this will help set a code of conduct — important for a relatively new medium like VR.

“In the future, we’ll explore the possibility of adding new controls and UI changes, such as letting people customize the size of their personal borders,” he told me.

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After a long beta test, Meta has launched Horizon Worlds to the public.

One beta user complained that her avatar was groped by strangers.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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