LastPass is about to enter the metaverse

Date:
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:52:02 +0000

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Home, work, and now the metaverse. LastPass hopes to serve your passwords up wherever you are.

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Popular password manager LastPass has announced that its about to venture
into the metaverse. At this years Meta Connect event, put together by Facebooks parent company Meta, the firm made its 2D Progressive Web App available in the Quest app store, marking the start of a new phase for the company.

This is a move that makes LastPass the first of its kind to offer a Meta
Quest app. In a press release, the company says that this milestone marks the password manager becoming a key security service for virtual reality users.
As Meta continues to expand its VR ecosystem, LastPass hopes to prove vital for business, educational, productivity, and entertainment environments.

With the new Meta Quest app, LastPass users can access things like login details, payment cards, and personal information like addresses, without needing to remove the VR headset . TechRadar Pro asked LastPass about the security of users' passwords on a VR headset, and whether additional authentication would be required.

In response, we were told: If customers have [multi-factor authentication (MFA)] enabled on their account, then they will still have to authenticate through that method - whether its the LastPass Authenticator or another MFA option. There is no extra face ID or touch ID on the actual device. We do suggest customers add an unlock pattern to their device and/or the app to log on. LastPass for Meta Quest

The free versions of LastPass allow users to store unlimited passwords, with access from one type of device. Premium plans (billed at the equivalent of 2.60/$3 per month, annually), open up access to multiple devices, and bring some extras like dark web monitoring and 1GB of encrypted file storage. Both membership types - free and paid - can use the Meta Quest app as part of
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LastPass CEO, Karim Toubba, explained that universal access to your logins, personal information, and data should be the expectation, no matter which device youre using. Many companies are already blurring the boundaries
between work and home accounts, however this is soon set to change with the inclusion of a new, digital existence.

The companys commitment to the metaverse seems pretty solid, with further plans to bring automatic save and fill to the Meta Quest Browser early in 2023, when it will become the first cross-device password manager to offer native integration.

So far, no other password managers have expressed commitment to offering metaverse apps, however its likely an inevitable step. Elsewhere, NordPass
has already conducted its own research on how customers intend to use the metaverse. These are the best security keys for protecting your online data



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