Forensics Analysis of Virtual Reality Social Community Applications on Oculus Quest 2

As the popularity of virtual reality (VR) applications increases, there is a growing concern for the forensic aspect of privacy and security of user data. This paper aims to investigate the extent to which forensically relevant user data can be recovered from Oculus Quest 2, specifically, from four social community applications: Horizon Worlds, Multiverse, Rec Room, and VRChat. By performing a forensic analysis on Oculus Quest 2, we were able to determine to what extent forensically relevant user data could be recovered from four social-community applications. Existing efforts in this field are limited. Thus, this study adds to the growing body of research on the forensic analysis of VR applications.