Hacking the metaverse: Cybersecurity researchers help protect people in immersive virtual reality

About 2 million people connected to virtual reality headsets every month in 2020. Virtual reality, or VR, industry revenues are projected to grow from $12 billion to $100 billion in the next five years. In the race to develop the most popular VR applications and capture the most consumer demand, VR software developers and companies are not always implementing measures to protect consumers from getting hacked. Oftentimes the products are released while still under development.

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