{"id":3915,"date":"2016-05-25T02:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/25\/uk-court-using-vr-to-transport-jurors-to-the-scene-of-the-crime\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T02:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:44:22","slug":"uk-court-using-vr-to-transport-jurors-to-the-scene-of-the-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/25\/uk-court-using-vr-to-transport-jurors-to-the-scene-of-the-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"UK court using VR to transport jurors to the scene of the crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f96440%2fhtcvvv8\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/jrp5l10DNyXo1EX_Lp-jyZa7rgk=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F96440%2Fhtcvvv8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=UK+court+using+VR+to+transport+jurors+to+the+scene+of+the+crime&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F24%2Fvirtual-reality-criminal-trials%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F24%2Fvirtual-reality-criminal-trials%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/virtual-reality\/\">virtual reality<\/a> to transport viewers to another place or time is on the rise when it comes to gaming and virtual tourism. But a new program in the UK is harnessing the technology to help jurors in criminal cases experience and relate to crime scenes during evidence presentations<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/21\/bill-gates-neal-stephenson-tesla-vr\/\">Bill Gates and Neal Stephenson drive into the future in a Tesla in VR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The program, according to a BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-36363172\">report<\/a>, is being led by a Staffordshire University research group and supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2016\/05\/24\/prestigious-grant-award-for-virtual-crime-scene-research\/\">a research grant<\/a> of more than $200,000 from the European Commission.  <\/p>\n<p>Using VR headsets, cameras and traditional green screen effects, the research group has put together a system that plunges jurors into the middle of a crime scene while simultaneously allowing an attorney to guide viewers through the scene and its evidence <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/24\/virtual-reality-criminal-trials\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/virtual-reality\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Virtual Reality<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/vr\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Vr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/AgoWYBUJaNI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using virtual reality to transport viewers to another place or time is on the rise when it comes to gaming and virtual tourism. But a new program in the UK is harnessing the technology to help jurors in criminal cases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/25\/uk-court-using-vr-to-transport-jurors-to-the-scene-of-the-crime\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[725,760,745,744],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-tech","tag-uk","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}