What might digital ID look like in a virtual world?

25 May 2023 · 1 min

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Two people discuss how you'll prove who you are in virtual worlds after 2030, when phones aren't the main way you access things. They map out three options: keeping everything on your device, splitting it between your device and the cloud, or storing it all in the cloud. Each trades off convenience against how much you have to trust someone else.

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As we go towards ambient and spatial computing and we're spending more time in, let's say, mixed reality, and obviously we are talking about 2030 and beyond now, you won't have a smartphone device with an app on it, will you? So where will the credentials go? What will they be like?
Right. That's another really good question. Where will they go? So IDaaS already allows for a cloud-based wallet or a hybrid wallet. So you can have what's called a full-edge wallet where all the credentials and keys are on the phone. A hybrid wallet where some elements of that, like some of the keys that unlock the main content are on the phone, but the actual credentials are in a cloud somewhere, which just means someone else's data center. And you need to know who that cloud is. Now you can have a full cloud wallet, which is, you know, everything is in someone else's data center. So it's a really interesting one to see how this is going to play out. Becomes much easier for synchronizing across multiple different devices if you've got a hybrid or a cloud-style wallet.