3D Video Game Collaboration Used To Solve Crimes

eldavojohn writes "Reuters explains how the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program is funding research used to implement real life crimes in a CSI-like game. They will use IC-CRIME's laser scanner technology and the Unity platform (which recently enjoyed the release of a freeware version) to recreate the crime scene as closely as possible. The crime scene will then be hosted for multiple remote crime scene investigators to explore concurrently while discussing what they see, sharing their data and experience as well as learning and asking questions."

DeltaSphere scanner from 3rdTech

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"IC-CRIME's laser scanner" is actually supplied by the company I work for, and it's called the DeltaSphere 3000 [deltasphere.com] We've sold dozens to police departments, CSI units, and such in several countries. More pictures at the website, of course.