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Re:Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive by saagarjha on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:53AM (#38541452)
There are a handful of potential uses for confidential VMs, but not many of them really seem to make sense on phones?
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Re:Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive by nl on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:05PM (#38551190)
The issue here isn't the technology though, it's imagination.

Think about gaming in VR. You might want to make a game where the ML can adapt to the physical peculiarities of a person (think like personalized audio for airpods) but want to guarantee it isn't giving the person an advantage. Even simple things like setting up a VR system (or any physical computing device) can give an advantage to someone if corruptible.

At the moment there are lots of "anti-cheat" technologies that attempt to solve this, but really it needs trusted execution.

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