The BBC report also references a safety campaigner who has spent months investigating VRChat. We are seeing products rolled out without any suggestion that safety has been considered.” "This is a product that is dangerous by design, because of oversight and neglect. "It's children being exposed to entirely inappropriate, really incredibly harmful experiences," he said. The NSPCC’s Head of Online Safety Policy, Andy Burrows, told the BBC that what it had uncovered was “extraordinary". In response, children’s charity the NSPCC told the BBC it was "shocked and angry" at the findings. The BBC researcher set up a fake Facebook account in order to download the app.
NAKED VRCHAT AVATARS VERIFICATION
The app has a minimum age rating of 13 and can be downloaded from an app store on Facebook's Meta Quest VR headset, with no age verification checks, the only requirement being that the person downloading has a Facebook account. One man told the researcher that avatars can "get naked and do unspeakable things". If you're so afraid that you might be reported for possession of an NSFW avatar - do not wear it in worlds that have users you don't trust. So it doesn't matter if NSFW avatars are allowed or not - the rule is physically inapplicable. The researcher also witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults and a rape threat. Even if VRChat crew wants to control every uploaded avatar - they are physically incapable of doing that. A researcher posing as a 13-year old girl was shown sex toys and condoms, and approached by numerous adult men. r/VrChatNSFW: Not Safe For Work Subreddit focused on VrChat to share Content and Have Fun. VRChat, an app that provides an online virtual platform that users can explore with 3D avatars allow children as young as 13 to experience virtual-reality rooms where avatars are seen simulating sex, the BBC reports.
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