VR company Upload settles sexual harassment lawsuit
San Francisco-based virtual reality startup UploadVR, which is now going by Upload, settled a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit yesterday with its former employee. Anonymous sources told TechCrunch that the lawsuit ended, which Upload later confirmed in a statement. No further details about the settlement were provided.
The lawsuit was filed this past May in California by Elizabeth Scott, formerly the director of digital and social media at UploadVR. The suit says that female colleagues were treated like “second class citizens” in corporate conversations, and that a manager would repeatedly make comments about the plaintiff’s body. The lawsuit claimed that others at UploadVR would continuously discuss a certain...