There is an overwhelming number of kids in multiplayer VR games screaming the most vile things I have ever heard and engaging in explicit harassment. I suspect it's due to a mix of immaturity crossed with anonymity and a sense of disembodiment while inhabiting a virtual avatar. Regardless, this needs to be addressed. Putting kids all in their own lobbies is not a great solution because it traps good kids with the bad/toxic ones. Instead, I suggest you add a microphone buffer/snapshot as an opt-in parental control feature. Open up an API for developers that allows them to trigger an event where the last ~30s/1 min of microphone input gets saved to the device and sent to the parent's phone/email if the player is flagged in-game by others. Please give parents the opportunity to turn these into teaching moments rather than letting VR multiplayer games become synonymous with this toxicity. Parents don't know what their kids are doing/saying while in VR and they can't address what they don't know about.
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