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*XRSecurity 2025 - 
Co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2025, 
October 27-30, 2025,
Houston, TX, USA*

( *https://xrsecurity.github.io/2025/ )

Extended Reality (XR) is a comprehensive term that includes Augmented
Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR). XR bridges
physical and digital worlds, creating interactive, immersive experiences
that merge with the real world. It offers numerous applications across
education, training, manufacturing, collaborative 3D design, art, and
multiplayer gaming.

Despite these benefits, XR systems introduce unique security, privacy, and
trust challenges due to the intimate connection between users, their XR
devices, and their immediate environments. The potential attacks can
involve information flooding to induce latency and physical discomfort,
injecting misleading virtual content to distract or deceive users,
subverting personal area networks to create confusion, spoofing alarms,
assessing user status through eye tracking, and accessing onboard cameras
to gather environmental information without the user's awareness.
Additionally, XR apps can access sensitive real-time inputs like eye gaze,
head movement, hand gestures, and even biosignals, and users' immediate
environment. These signals, while critical for immersive experiences, open
up novel attack surfaces such as keystroke inference, emotional profiling,
and behavioral tracking.

This workshop will explore the security, privacy, and trust challenges in
XR systems, along with potential solutions. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

-- Threat modeling and risk assessment in XR environments
-- Secure data transmission and storage in XR systems
-- Privacy-preserving techniques for XR applications
-- Authentication and access control mechanisms for XR
-- AI-driven security solutions for XR
-- Case studies and real-world applications of secure XR systems
-- Side-channel vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies in XR systems
-- Security in shared or collaborative XR environments
-- Human-centered and usable security designs for XR
-- Security and privacy in edge-assisted and cloud-connected XR platforms

*Important dates*
-- Submission deadline: August 1, 2025
-- Acceptance notification: August 22, 2025
-- Camera-ready manuscript deadline: August 29, 2025
-- Workshop: October 30, 2025


Organizers: Maria Gorlatova (Duke), Bin Li (Penn State), and Ming LI (UT
Arlington)