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."

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[nomadic]

The prosecutors found it was becoming more and more difficult to get juries to convict people when evidence was displayed in a traditional manner since juries seem to now have higher expectations in how evidence is displayed due to shows like CSI and the like.

Yeah, sucks how juries won't convict anymore just because the prosecutor asks them too...

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'm more concerned about juries convicting just because the prosecutors show up with an animation of the alleged crime.

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[zaffir]

How likely is it that the key to solving a particular crime is hidden in small subtle details that, upon first glance, nobody notices in real life. These things certainly aren't going to transfer to a digital world that has to be recreated by 3D artists.