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'Virtual groping feels just as real': Sexual assaults that occur in the metaverse being looked into
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Touted as the future with the potential to connect people in new ways, the metaverse now has the potential to be a crime scene.
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SINGAPORE - In 2016, a woman from America who goes by the pseudonym Jordan Belamire wrote on open publishing platform Medium about how she had been virtually groped while trying out a virtual reality (VR) game.
She had been sexually assaulted previously in real life, and said being assaulted during the VR game was like being attacked physically.
