Threats Faced by Mixed Reality and Countermeasures

Abstract

Mixed Reality, MR, is defined as the integration of real and virtual worlds to create an environment which allows co-existing of physical and digital objects enabling users to interact with both. MR is a cross of reality, virtual reality including augmented reality and augmented virtuality. With the advent of wireless technologies and ever-increasing integration of the virtual world with the real world, MR has gained more significance in the last 5 years. Also, because of its real-life applications in education, gaming, entertainment, medicine, and military. But no technology comes without risks and shortcomings. Thus, MR also faces many threats and attacks which are broadly classified into 5 types namely, input, output, data, user interaction and device protection some of which include latency, data collection, physical device threats, user threats etc. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of these threats on MR and solutions to mitigate the effects of it.