Perceptions of the Privacy and Security of Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging technology, projected to grow into a $100B industry in the next five years. While a preliminary body of research has begun to explore security vulnerabilities and privacy threats in VR, little prior work has explored how users perceive these threats. By understanding users’ perceptions early in the VR adoption lifecycle, we have a unique opportunity to inform the development of policies, educational materials, and corporate best-practices to help ensure the protection of VR users. In this poster, we present preliminary findings from a series of semi-structured interviews with VR users to understand their use of VR, their awareness of the data collected by these systems, and their privacy and security concerns.