Shadow banning in social vr setting

A system for shadow banning a target participant within a social VR system, the system comprising:

• at least one recognition and tracking unit configured to recognize and track inappropriate behaviors including inappropriate language and comments, inappropriate gestures, and inappropriate movements;
• a processor configured to receive and forward an identity of the participant, who may be shadow banned, to the at least one recognition and tracking unit,
• the processor also configured to receive and process the recognized and tracked inappropriate behaviors of the target participant,
• the processor further configured to generate a safety rating based on the processed inappropriate behaviors, compare the safety rating to a threshold value, and output a signal to label the target participant as a griefer and shadow ban the griefer when the safety rating is greater than the threshold value.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program to shadow ban a participant within a social VR system, the computer program comprising executable instructions that cause a computer to:

• receive and forward an identity of the participant, who may be shadow banned;
• recognize and track inappropriate behaviors including inappropriate language and comments, inappropriate gestures, and inappropriate movements;
• receive and process the recognized and tracked inappropriate behaviors of the participant;
• generate a safety rating based on the processed inappropriate behaviors;
• compare the safety rating to a threshold value;
• and
• output a signal to label the participant as a griefer and shadow ban the griefer when the safety rating is greater than the threshold value.