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The Third-Party Blind Spot – Are You Really in Control of Your Data?

“What price will you pay when a hidden vendor in your supply chain betrays the trust you’ve spent years building?” When data governance breaks down across your vendors, the trust you’ve built becomes your greatest liability—what’s needed to safeguard your most valuable asset. During my time at Facebook as a Third-Party Risk Consultant, I witnessed…

Behind the Lens—The Hidden Risks of AR and VR Passthrough APIs

What if the device that brings the Metaverse to life also captures every move you make? The data we generate through immersive technologies becomes the next frontier – data that is not just a reflection of our surroundings but a blueprint of who we are. AR and VR aren’t just about immersive experiences. They’re powerful…

Changemakers of XRSI – Celebrating Women’s History Month

As the next iteration of the Internet emerges, along comes the opportunity and obligation to build responsibly where issues like safety, privacy, accessibility, diversity, sustainability, and responsible innovation are addressed proactively. XRSI is defining the North Star for the Metaverse to help guide global citizens’ actions and choices that will inevitably shape the future. This…

The Prelonian Doge – NFT for Good

XRSI, Animals Facing Left and House of Prelon drop today an “NFT for Good”, defending key values such as human and animal rights.…

Don’t Let Your PRESENT 🎁 Endanger Your future

If you are among the parents who bought a Virtual Reality (VR) Headset as a Christmas present for your child, you might have some questions about whether this technology is safe for your child or not…

Defending the Right to Repair for XR

What is the Right to Repair? Will you buy a device, knowing, if you did something to better understand the functionality and investigate the flaws in it, it will be rendered useless? While options exist to repair the device, possibly even Do it Yourself (DIY), the manufacturer terms dictate that you are not allowed to…