Overview
XRSI organizes recurring working group sessions and roundtable discussions with stakeholders, technologists, regulators, policymakers, and human rights experts globally.
The goal is to have a constant dialogue and share insights, research, data, experiences, and concerns to address the implications of enormous amounts of data being collected and shared in the immersive ecosystems. Through this roundtable, we hope to collaboratively map the classification contexts and schemes that enable and drive the adoption of various augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies.
The magnitude and scale of XR data make it challenging to categorize in a simplified manner. Regardless, an attempt must be made to look thru and analyze such a large amount of data with a filter of Information Security, privacy and safety principles.
Since XR has the potential to record all new kinds of user information (from eye movements and emotions to the movement of a user’s entire body through space), ensuring that this data is managed in a responsible way has become paramount for virtual XR researchers and commercial entities alike. XR creates a complex convolution… in which the biological mind and its technological niche influence each other in ways we are just beginning to understand. It is this complex convolution that makes it so important to think about the Security, Privacy, and Ethics of XR in a critical, evidence-based, and rational manner.
The development of Data Classification guidance, common vocabularies, and Data sets will certainly contribute to the understanding of potential risks associated with XR data.
The XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) has a technology leadership role, consistent with its mission, to inspire and catalyze the safe use of X-Reality. An immediate application will result in the creation of baseline standards as well as secure and effective adoption of XR technologies.
