{"id":382599,"date":"2021-12-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/going-meta-digital-cities-attacks-on-female-creators-and-more\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T20:00:00","slug":"going-meta-digital-cities-attacks-on-female-creators-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/going-meta-digital-cities-attacks-on-female-creators-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"# Going meta: digital cities, attacks on female creators, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29183464341\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29183464341\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/going-meta-digital-cities-attacks-on-female-creators-and-more\/#Digital_cities_Santa_Monica_and_Seoul\" >Digital cities: Santa Monica and Seoul<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/going-meta-digital-cities-attacks-on-female-creators-and-more\/#Does_Meta_have_a_%E2%80%98women_problem\" >Does Meta have a \u2018women problem\u2019?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/going-meta-digital-cities-attacks-on-female-creators-and-more\/#Companies_going_meta\" >Companies going meta<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/going-meta-digital-cities-attacks-on-female-creators-and-more\/#Facebook_whistleblower_issues_metaverse_warning\" >Facebook whistleblower issues metaverse warning<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong># Going meta: digital cities, attacks on female creators, and more  <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>Following the announcement that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u2019s parent company would be rebranding in a shift towards the metaverse, many projects have started similar initiatives entering the virtual space, from buying property to testing the limits of what this universe has to offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Digital_cities_Santa_Monica_and_Seoul\"><\/span>Digital cities: Santa Monica and Seoul<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Downtown Santa Monica District west of Los Angeles was one of the first real-world areas to allow users to have access to the metaverse through the FlickPlay <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>. Branded as a metaverse tool, walking around the district seems to be more of a limited augmented reality experience rather than a virtual one, with people collecting digital tokens in the style of Pok\u00e9mon GO. <\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Seoul\u2019s entry into the metaverse is expected to be a 100% virtual environment once launched in early 2023. In November, the local government <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/m-en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20211103002700315\">announced<\/a> it would be starting its own platform, Metaverse Seoul, slowly integrating services related to the economy, culture, education and civil complaints. In addition, the Korean capital planned to create virtual versions of its major tourist attractions and hold festivals in the metaverse.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-12\/67828b03-fab9-4d04-a880-229c154450e1.png\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Seoul, South Korea. Source: author<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Does_Meta_have_a_%E2%80%98women_problem\"><\/span>Does Meta have a \u2018women problem\u2019?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Following the launch of Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and online community platform released by Meta \u2014 formerly Facebook \u2014 at least one user reported that the virtual environment allowed sexual harassment. In a Dec. 16 report from MIT <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> Review, one of Horizon\u2019s beta testers <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/12\/16\/1042516\/the-metaverse-has-a-groping-problem\/\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/12\/16\/1042516\/the-metaverse-has-a-groping-problem\/amp\/\">said<\/a> a stranger had groped her avatar. Though there is a feature capable of encasing an avatar in a protective bubble to seemingly stop such an attack, the user was either unable to activate it in time, or was otherwise unaware of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, the nature of virtual-reality spaces is such that it is designed to trick the user into thinking they are physically in a certain space, that their every bodily action is occurring in a 3D environment,\u201d said Katherine Cross, an online harassment researcher at the University of Washington. \u201cIt\u2019s part of the reason why emotional reactions can be stronger in that space, and why VR triggers the same internal nervous system and psychological responses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In November, another woman <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/13\/technology\/instagram-handle-metaverse.html\" data-amp=\"https:\/\/www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/13\/technology\/instagram-handle-metaverse.amp.html\">reported<\/a> her metaverse persona under attack, this time without the use of avatars and with seemingly more real-world effects on her business. When Facebook rebranded to Meta, Australian artist Thea-Mai Baumann reported being locked out of her Instagram account. Her handle? \u201cMetaverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-12\/863082d1-e523-45e7-9358-490faddc4407.png\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Source:\u00a0Thea-Mai Baumann&#8217;s Instagram account, &#8220;metaverse&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because Meta owns Instagram and Baumann\u2019s account was relatively small \u2014 fewer than 1,000 followers at the time \u2014 many on social media suspected the company would simply seize her account rather than buy it. She ended up being locked out for more than a month without being able to verify her identity before Instagram restored access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis account is a decade of my life and work. I didn\u2019t want my contribution to the metaverse to be wiped from the internet,\u201d said Baumann. \u201cThat happens to women in tech, to women of color in tech, all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Companies_going_meta\"><\/span>Companies going meta<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On Dec. 10, Chinese internet giant Baidu <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/baijiahao.baidu.com\/s?id=1718728876331842170\">announced<\/a> plans to launch its own metaverse product, called XiRang, a universe capable of handling input from 100,000 users where it also plans to host an AI developer conference. The Baidu Create conference is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/baidu-to-showcase-ai-advances-at-chinas-first-ever-metaverse-conference-301447274.html\">expected<\/a> to be held on Dec. 27.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-12\/a92daaca-a8ae-4d2d-beea-f1f8aa1dc051.png\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A city in Baidu&#8217;s metaverse. Source: Baidu<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sports footwear and apparel manufacturer Nike\u2019s products are officially going virtual following the acquisition of virtual sneakers and collectibles brand RTFKT this week. RTFKT, which describes itself as \u201cfully formed in the metaverse,\u201d will likely help Nike advance its own plans to &#8220;just do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Facebook_whistleblower_issues_metaverse_warning\"><\/span>Facebook whistleblower issues metaverse warning<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who turned over thousands of documents that implied that the company was not doing what it claimed in regard to removing hate speech and posts encouraging violence, voiced her concerns about the metaverse. In a Dec. 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter released by Time magazine, Haugen said she was \u201csuper scared\u201d about the potential risks of the virtual world for surveillance, socializing, and more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen you go into the metaverse, your avatar is a little more handsome or pretty than yourself. You have better clothes than we have in reality. The apartment is more stylish, more calm. And you take your headset off and you go to brush your teeth at the end of the night. And maybe you just don&#8217;t like yourself in the mirror as much. That cycle&#8230; I&#8217;m super worried that people are going to look at their apartment, which isn&#8217;t as nice, and look at their face or their body, which isn&#8217;t as nice, and say: \u2018I would rather have my headset on.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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