Improving justice through virtual reality

Vision

To improve justice! To allow anyone to inspect a crime scene.

Mission

A virtual reality platform to help law enforcement, prosecutors and defense attorneys to accurately replicate and communicate the facts around a crime or accident scene.

Problem

How to accurately replicate and communicate the facts. How to tell the story. How to tell the truth… Society needs to adopt the most effective and capable way, and at the same time, get more efficient than ever.

Solution

Our solution allows to capture and reproduce crime scenes using Virtual Reality technologies. We provide the ability to annotate and collaborate throughout the end-to-end process – from crime scene to court room.

Technology

We have developed a complete software platform incorporating our multiple Patented and Patent Pending technologies.

The FactualVR platform provides the following capabilities:

COMPILE DATA FROM VR SENSORS (CAMERAS, SCANNERS, ETC)

Our software is designed to import and process data from multiple sensors, including laser scanners, videos, images, audio, documents, etc. The system can handle multiple formats for point clouds and meshes, as well as multiple formats for images and videos, including 360° imagery and binaural audio.

INTEGRATE VR DATA INTO A VIRTUAL RECREATION OF THE SCENE

Once the raw data is imported, our system will process the input and produce a real-size immersive representation of the scene, including the scene environment and individual interactive objects for each piece of evidence that the user might want to include.

VISUALIZE AND NAVIGATE THE VIRTUAL CRIME SCENE

Users are then immersed in the virtual space to observe and explore the scene – like if they were there. The VR system provides a full sense of “Presence.” It allows users to walk around to see the scene, as well as the collected evidence, from every desired point of view.

ANNOTATE AND COLLABORATE THROUGH THE PROCESS

The multi-user capability enables remote users to meet at the virtual scene to add information in the form of verbal and visual annotations, as well as communicate and collaborate with each other during the process. Users can record enactments and simulate potential sequence of events to tell the story.

Demo

Testimonials

The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner is exploring possible applications of VR to death scene investigation.

Bradley J. Adams, PhD, D-ABFADirector of Forensic Anthropology – Office of Chief Medical Examiner

We have been testing the VR software and showing our bosses how the scans look in VR. Everyone is beyond impressed with it. We are going to work with the Forensic Coordinator ADA from our DA’s office to determine if or how this could be shown in court.

Donald PalmerDetective – Westchester County Police Department

Bringing investigators back into a crime scene to look at evidence or look through the eyes of a witness is incredibly valuable.

Eugene Liscio, P. Eng. Owner – ai2-3D Forensics

We believe this VR system will prove to be a valuable communication tool, allowing investigators to efficiently and securely share knowledge with prosecutors and each other

William HenningsenForensic Manager – Omaha Police Department

The person in charge of the case sometimes doesn’t go to the crime scene for days or weeks, and in some cases doesn’t go at all. With this technology, they could walk into the scene right away, whenever they want.

Matt S. Detective

There is a distinct need for an intuitive method for the visualization of these rich, 3D evidence data sets. FactualVR provides this method and does it with a little additional effort.

Keith S.Deputy Chief of Investigations