With Meta positioning its Quest 3 as a “mixed reality” device, I’ve been telling anyone I can that there’s a major policy discussion to be had concerning the privacy, safety, and property interests inherent in digital space and spatial data. It was a professional bucket list item that Wired took my pitch:
The risks of this spatial information have not received as much attention as they deserve. Part of this is because few people understand this technology, and even if they do, it does not seem as scary as tech that is developed to monitor our eyes or surreptitiously record someone at a distance. Concepts like “point clouds,” “scene models,” “geometric meshes,” and “depth data” can be explained away as technical jargon. But allowing wearables to understand their surroundings and report back that information is a big deal.
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