Meta adds an 18 and up tag in Horizon Worlds, opening the door to mature VR content
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#61Q52)
An image of a Horizon Worlds location made to look like a club | Image: Meta
Meta is expanding what type of content is allowed in the virtual worlds that people make for Horizon Worlds, its platform that lets people create VR spaces for shared experiences. The company has added an 18 and up tag for user-created worlds and updated its policy to allow creators to include mature" content that was previously banned altogether. According to UploadVR, creators who have published worlds received an email saying they have to manually mark whether their world is mature or safe for all audiences - if they don't, it will be restricted to 18 and up by default.
Based on a Wayback Machine archive of Meta's Horizon Mature Worlds Policy page from April, this means Meta is now allowing content that was previously banned. The...