Rovell, Timothy. “Dutch Police Use Augmented Reality to Investigate Crime Scenes.” New Scientist,
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For this review I read the article by Timothy Rovell titled “Dutch Police use Augmented Reality to Investigate Crime Scenes.” This article talks about how the Dutch are attempting to help out their first responders to a crime scene. The article gives the example of a officer entering a ecstasy lab, but not knowing what to look for, so an expert looks though the officers body cam and points out what to look for into a smart phone or a HUD(heads up display) on something like a google glass. The article also mentioned how the video analysis by the expert could be used in court.
This technology can have a great impact of how crime scenes are first looked at. If this technology is brought to the US it could lead to better analysis of crime scenes and more faith in first responders to not miss things when in a crime scene. It allows the field officer to have the knowledge of an expert to make sure everything is documented.
This article was very well written. It had quotes from experts as well great examples to let the reader know exactly what this technology is capable of helping.
1 comment:
I thought that Spencer did a good job of explaining the relevance of this technology in forensic science and he had a good critique of the article. I also liked that his review tells you most of what you need to know while still being very brief.
Something I think could be improved on is the summary, since I feel like that part is lacking a little detail. I also think some quotes would be a good addition, since Spencer mentioned that the article had many.
I was surprised by the fact that this practice is called “augmented reality” when it seems more like just a guy talking into an earpiece telling you what to look out for. Augmented reality seems like it ought to be a little more science fiction-like than that, but then again this kind of thing would seem like science fiction to someone living many years ago.
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