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Inferring Private Personal Attributes of Virtual Reality Users from Head and Hand Motion Data. (arXiv:2305.19198v2 [cs.HC] UPDATED)
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Motion tracking "telemetry" data lies at the core of nearly all modern
virtual reality (VR) and metaverse experiences. While generally presumed
innocuous, recent studies have demonstrated that motion data actually has the
potential to uniquely identify VR users. In this study, we go a step further,
showing that a variety of private user information can be inferred just by
analyzing motion data recorded from VR devices. We conducted a large-scale
survey of VR users (N=1,006) with dozens of questions ranging …
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