SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PREVENT SURVEILLANCE AND PRESERVE PRIVACY IN VIRTUAL REALITY

Preserving user privacy and preventing surveillance on behalf of users of a virtual reality world. This is achieved by an apparatus hosting a shared virtual world in which a plurality of users, including a first user, are able to interact; while the first user is interacting in the shared virtual wo...

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Hauptverfasser: FALCHUK, Benjamin, LOEB, Shoshana, NEFF, Ralph
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:Preserving user privacy and preventing surveillance on behalf of users of a virtual reality world. This is achieved by an apparatus hosting a shared virtual world in which a plurality of users, including a first user, are able to interact; while the first user is interacting in the shared virtual world, the apparatus receives an instruction from the first user to generate a private copy of a portion of the shared virtual world; and in response to the instruction, it is hosting the private copy of the portion of the shared virtual world, wherein only the first user is able to interact in the private copy of the portion of the shared virtual world.