Helping build safe immersive environments

X Reality Safety Initiative – XRSI – is viewed by many stakeholders as a necessary component of proactively anticipating and addressing the cybersecurity challenges faced by globally dispersed researchers when establishing baseline standards and discovery of novel cyber attacks in emerging technologies.

XRSI in the press

XRSI’s CEO, Kavya Pearlman, in Vox article about new Meta’s voice assistant

On February 23, Vox‘s journalist Shirin Ghaffary interviewed Kavya Pearlman, CEO and Founder of XRSI, to discuss the new product showcased by Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in the company’s effort to shift its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the Metaverse. As Ghaffary wrote, “That’s created a lot of questions, […]
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XRSI’s CEO, Kavya Pearlman, live in Al Jazeera English

On Monday, February 21, XRSI’s CEO Kavya Pearlman took part in a discussion on the topic “Can the metaverse be a harassment-free zone?”, during The Stream show on Al Jazeera English. Originally posted on Al Jazeera website Earlier this month Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, took steps to curb harassment in the virtual […]
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Kavya Pearlman on “How can we make the metaverse safe?”

Poulomi Chatterjee, a Technology Journalist with Analytics India Magazine, covered Meta’s challenge to create a new virtual universe while ensuring safety and trust, a mission that the Zuckerberg-led company has failed to achieve with its previous iterations. As the article states, Last year in November, Nick Clegg, Meta’s head of global affairs, said the company […]
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Fostering a healthy research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem

Encouraging policy coordination

Resolving financial barriers to research

Establishing Safety and Ethics standards

XR Data Classification Roundtable

XRSI, supported by Facebook Reality Labs, seeks interest from XR stakeholders, technologists, human rights experts, Philanthropic funds, and civil liberty organizations to be part of the XR Data Classification Roundtable hosted during XR Safety Week ( 6-10 December 2021).

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The XRSI Privacy and Safety Framework

Version 1.0

XR Industry is moving fast, so is the urgency to create standards, guidelines, and awareness for XR stakeholders. Recent news about data, privacy, and safety concerns are growing as the technological advancements take place. To address this urgent XRSI is releasing a novel Privacy and Safety Framework version 1.0.

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