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Police are investigating a virtual sexual assault of a girl's avatar, the chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners has said.

Donna Jones said she had learned that a complaint was made in 2023, triggering a police inquiry.

The virtual incident did not result in physical harm but caused "psychological trauma", the Daily Mail has reported a source as saying. Police chiefs have called on platforms to do more to protect their users.

The impact of the attack on the girl's avatar was said to be heightened because of the immersive nature of the VR experience.

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's not objective, it's subjective. 100% of "immersion" is happening in your brain, where the signals received by your senses are being processed into experiences. Thus, different people will experience different levels of immersion, which is how things should be, instead of everyone being expected to try to feel the same as everyone else when faced with the same stimuli.

Basically you're expressing an opinion. Which is fine, people can have those, but others can have other ones too. And that is also fine.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 10 points 10 months ago

We're talking about safe spaces again. Some people are hyper sensitive to things other people can tolerate just fine. It's tricky to protect those people without criminalising behaviours that are harmless in normal circumstances. Once you criminalise everything everyone can become a criminal.

[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What I mean is there's nothing pushing or pulling at you, you can clip your hand into the other person (or mush it to a point where it's visually disconnected from where your arm is), you can easily remove yourself from the situation by logging off, taking the headset off, or both.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That's fair. I can see a state of panic potentially being involved, but that could be addressed with technical improvements. Monitoring your eyeballs perhaps, and some sort of panic safety switch.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that's fair, but I also think there's something clinically wrong with people who's reaction is anything but ripping off the headset when they feel violated

And I mean that in the context that these people should be given therapy for free. That level of attachment to an avatar is not a trait of a healthy person

To illustrate my point, there's people who described their gta5 characters being violated was like being raped... If you're being raped, and you could shut your eyes to make it stop, and you don't...

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That's fine. We don't use opinions or outliers to determine what is/isn't clinically wrong though, it all varies too much. Humans are very unpredictable, we're a good bit more complicated than most other animals. Medicine is not supposed to be a tool for conformity, but health. So, it has to acknowledge that people just aren't logical. We're wet, sloppy, buggy computers.