3D Video Game Collaboration Used To Solve Crimes 45
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."
Similar Experience (Score:5, Interesting)
I use to work for a programming shop that use to (among other things) make 3D rendering and design tools used for criminal court cases. 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. This was around 2006-2007 so it doesn't surprise me that stuff like this is in development in 2009 though frankly I would have thought this would have occured sooner then that.
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just as long a they rely on experts to discuss what they see. if they take everyone at large, well someone has to sort though all the crap the infinite number of monkeys write to determine if it is worth reading let alone Shakespeare because well frankly most of it is crap written by crap flinging monkeys. it will likely waste more time than it saves, it is a fundamental problem with crowd intelligence.
Re:Government must have a Department Of Acronyms (Score:1, Interesting)
So a platform called "IC-CRIME" appears to be using a scanner called the "DeltaSphere 3000" and "I.C. Wiener" appears on a note in the Futurama episode called "Space Pilot 3000".
Coincidence? I think not.