Coming Soon: Augmented Reality Goggles for Crime Scene Investigations - butlerqueent

Life imitates art? Augmented reality crime scene investigations as depicted in the video game "Heavy Rain" gives an idea of what this technical school might be like. [Pic: Quantic Woolgather]

Augmented reality apps on our phones are pretty dandy for directing America to the closest Starbucks and for providing some other computing machine-along-the-go Department of Housing and Urban Development effects, but in the future it could be wont to fight crime.

A group of scientists from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have developed a twain of AR goggles to be used in law-breaking scene investigations. The goggles dwell of two caput mounted 3D-cameras alimentation video to a backpack with laptop computer.

With this technical school, you'd be free to impress and appear more or less while you manipulate the electronic display with a pair of gloves. The left brings up a set of menus and tools, piece the decently script acts as a cursor. By pointing to a blood splatter or bullet holes (for example), you'd be fit to tag them as points of interest in a 3D-model of the crime scene.

The system is also set up to completely document the crime scene with a video and audio rails. This sort of virtual memorialize would allow a unaccustomed investigator to explore the crime scene and it Crataegus oxycantha also be accepted as evidence in future court cases.

As cool as this Ar CSI sounds for a Minority Report/Heavy Rain future for crime solving, I can imagine archaeologist and paleontologist are foaming at the mouth for this sort of engineering science too, since they withal have to create records with 3D grids, measurements of all dimension, and closed images of their dig sites.

The system has proven to be effective in a mock law-breaking prospect, so the scientists plan to test information technology in a real-world crime tantrum with the Dutch Police, and possibly use it to teach new investigators. The results of the study will presented in March at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work conference in Bellevue, American capital.

[New Scientist]