Deterring sexual harassment of avatars in virtual reality
AssigneeWesley John Boudville
InventorWesley John Boudville
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Abstract
Systems and methods of anti-sexual harassment in Virtual Reality can be realized by clickable links positioned on regions of an avatar defined as “off-limits”. An avatar lets a region of its surface be clickable. When a second avatar touches the region, the second avatar is sent to another VR site, which can be playing disorienting images and cacophonous sound. The first avatar can be a stripper, lap dancer or taxi dancer. She can define her bra and panties as off limits. Or she defines her vagina, anus and mouth off limits.
Claims9
A method of anti-sexual harassment in Virtual Reality (VR) executed by a computer processor, comprising:
- providing, by the computer processor, a first VR site where avatars of different users can interact with each other;
- providing, by the computer processor, a second VR site where cacophonous sounds are playing;
- wherein the first VR site and the second VR site are part of a metaverse;
- providing, by the computer processor, a first avatar to a first user and a second avatar to a second user in the first VR site;
- wherein the first avatar is female;
- executing, by the computer processor of the VR site, source code instructions to make one or more portions of an outer surface of the first avatar into clickable link portions by associating a bitmap of the respective portion with a link, wherein the one or more clickable link portions comprise at least one of:
- a portion covering breasts of the first avatar,
- a portion covering a groin of the first avatar, and
- a portion covering buttocks of the first avatar;
- wherein determining that the second avatar interacts with one of the clickable link portions of the outer surface of the first avatar, the computer processor executes associated code of the link configured to initiate:
- interrogating, by the computer processor, data associated with the second user to determine if the second user has a code to link analysis permitting the second avatar touch the one of the clickable link portions;
- and
- transporting the second avatar to the second VR site as a punishment for the second avatar user if the second user does not have the code to the link analysis, transport the second avatar to the second VR site as a punishment for the second avatar user.
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