Resumen de Police search for clues with augmented reality
Dutch police are trialing an augmented reality (AR) system that streams video from body cameras worn by officers to experts elsewhere. These experts can then guide the officers by annotating the scene virtually with notes that the officers can see on a smartphone or head-mounted device like Google Glass. They now have good enough software and hardware to use augmented reality at crime scenes, says Dragos Datcu, principal researcher at AR company Twnkls in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Datcu and his colleagues at the Delft University of Technology have been developing the AR system for five years and have now tested it in collaboration with the Dutch Police, the Netherlands Forensic Institute and the Dutch Fire Brigade. In six months, the police will be able to buy the complete package, he says
