Request for proposals on responsible innovation in AR/VR: “Consider Everyone”

Within the context of the “Consider Everyone” Principle, Facebook is specifically interested in a set of topics related to non-user and bystander experiences in public and private spaces, across a variety of cultural and socioeconomic circumstances, with particular attention to communities that could be disproportionately impacted by misuse (e.g., communities of color).

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. What are the unique implications for bystanders who are members of an impacted or vulnerable group?

2. How do expectations of privacy change across public, quasi-public, and private spaces?

3. To what degree do cultural attitudes towards bystander privacy differ around the world, and how should that inform the way we think about privacy by design for AR/VR products?

4. How could AR/VR exacerbate or ameliorate tech-driven inequality and, more specifically, racial inequity?

Funding: $75,000

Duration: no fixed limit 

Research Authority due date: 22.10.20