The Common Sense white paper highlights both opportunities and risks for children in the metaverse. While platforms like Roblox and Fortnite already expose millions of kids to immersive worlds, concerns are mounting around safety, privacy, and wellbeing. Identified risks include cybersickness, eye strain, and physical accidents from VR use; privacy violations from biometric data collection; susceptibility to manipulation, misinformation, and extremist recruitment; exposure to sexual harassment and abuse; and psychological effects such as addiction, aggression, and dissociation. The paper calls on companies to design child-centered safeguards, policymakers to strengthen privacy and safety regulations, and parents to engage actively with their children’s metaverse experiences to mitigate har

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