vrCAPTCHA: Exploring CAPTCHA Designs in Virtual Reality

With the popularity of online access in virtual reality (VR) devices, it will become important to investigate exclusive and interactive CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) designs for VR devices. In this paper, we first present four traditional two-dimensional (2D) CAPTCHAs (i.e., text-based, image-rotated, image-puzzled, and image-selected CAPTCHAs) in VR. Then, based on the three-dimensional (3D) interaction characteristics of VR devices, we propose two vrCAPTCHAs design prototypes (i.e., task-driven and bodily motion-based CAPTCHAs). We conducted a six-participant pre-user study for exploring the feasibility of our two vrCAPTCHAs and traditional CAPTCHAs in VR. Finally, we believe that our two vrCAPTCHAs can be an inspiration for the further design of CAPTCHAs in VR.