Innocent or guilty? Virtual reality gives us the verdict
TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING Innocent or guilty? Virtual reality gives us the verdict
A new study provides overwhelming evidence in favour of using virtual reality in the courtroom, effectively dropping jurors right in the middle of a car accident or murder scene.
UniSA lecturer in Agile Methodology Dr Andrew Cunningham explains how a team of UniSA researchers, legal professionals, police and forensic scientists simulated a hit-and-run scene, reconstructing the events with a laser scanner to compare verdicts between ‘jurors’ using 3D headsets and those relying on photographs from the scene.
The result? Better recall, spatial accuracy and more consistent verdicts in the case of the jurors (30 study participants) using interactive technology.
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