Security and privacy in virtual reality: a literature survey

A Giaretta - Virtual Reality, 2024‏ - Springer
Virtual reality (VR) is a multibillionaire market that keeps growing, year after year. As VR is
becoming prevalent in households and small businesses, it is critical to address the effects …

An empirical study on oculus virtual reality applications: Security and privacy perspectives

H Guo, HN Dai, X Luo, Z Zheng, G Xu… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Although Virtual Reality (VR) has accelerated its prevalent adoption in emerging metaverse
applications, it is not a fundamentally new technology. On one hand, most VR operating …

[PDF][PDF] Eavesdrop** on controller acoustic emanation for keystroke inference attack in virtual reality

S Luo, A Nguyen, H Farooq, K Sun… - The Network and …, 2024‏ - ndss-symposium.org
Understanding the vulnerability of virtual reality (VR) is crucial for protecting sensitive data
and building user trust in VR ecosystems. Previous attacks have demonstrated the feasibility …

When the User Is Inside the User Interface: An Empirical Study of {UI} Security Properties in Augmented Reality

K Cheng, A Bhattacharya, M Lin, J Lee… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024‏ - usenix.org
Augmented reality (AR) experiences place users inside the user interface (UI), where they
can see and interact with three-dimensional virtual content. This paper explores UI security …

VSpatial: Enabling private and verifiable spatial keyword-based positioning in 6G-oriented IoT

W Zhang, M Zhao, Z Sun, C Zhang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For increasing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, 6G wireless technology aims for ubiquitous
communications in which positioning services are necessary. Private spatial keyword-based …

Sensor security in virtual reality: Exploration and mitigation

T Ni - Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Virtual Reality (VR) technology, extensively utilized in gaming, social networking, and online
collaboration, has raised significant security concerns due to the array of sensors integrated …

Penetration vision through virtual reality headsets: identifying 360-degree videos from head movements

A Nguyen, X Zhang, Z Yan - 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX …, 2024‏ - usenix.org
In this paper, we present the first contactless side-channel attack for identifying 360 videos
being viewed in a Virtual Reality (VR) Head Mounted Display (HMD). Although the video …

FaceReader: unobtrusively mining vital signs and vital sign embedded sensitive info via AR/VR motion sensors

T Zhang, Z Ye, AT Mahdad, MMRR Akanda… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
The market size of augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) has been expanding rapidly
in recent years, with the use of face-mounted headsets extending beyond gaming to various …

[HTML][HTML] Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues in Extended Reality Health Care Applications: Sco** Review

K Lake, A Mc Kittrick, M Desselle, APL Bo… - JMIR XR and Spatial …, 2024‏ - xr.jmir.org
Background: Virtual reality (VR) is a type of extended reality (XR) technology that is seeing
increasing adoption in health care. There is robust evidence articulating how consumer …

Virtual Keymysteries Unveiled: Detecting Keystrokes in VR with External Side-Channels

H Khalili, A Chen, T Papaiakovou… - 2024 IEEE Security …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
AR/VR devices are becoming prevalent, permeating different facets of our daily lives.
Nevertheless, this prevalence presents fresh security and privacy hurdles as users …