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By focusing on immersive interaction among users, the burgeoning Metaverse can be viewed as a natural extension of existing social media. Similar to traditional online social networks, there are numerous security and privacy issues in the Metaverse (e.g., attacks on user authentication and impersonation). In this article, we develop a holistic research agenda for zero-trust user authentication in social virtual reality (VR), an early prototype of the Metaverse. Our proposed research includes four concrete steps: investigating biometrics-based authentication that is suitable for continuously authenticating VR users, leveraging federated learning (FL) for protecting user privacy in biometric data, improving the accuracy of continuous VR authentication with multimodal data, and boosting the usability of zero-trust security with adaptive VR authentication. Our preliminary study demonstrates that conventional FL algorithms are …