Platforms like immersive video games, 3D movies and virtual environments have used VR(virtual reality) for years, but this technology could soon be utilized to inspect crime scenes, helping jurors make more informed decisions during court trials.
New experiments show that creating a mock crime scene in a virtual setting preserves the location-based information for the viewers, leading to more consistent verdicts.

Virtual Reality For Real Crime Scenes

<ul><li>Jurors often visit the crime scene, costing thousands of dollars and a lot of wasted time.</li><li>Virtual visits using VR reduces the cost and the time taken for the final verdict.</li><li>Viewers can teleport to the location instantly and even freely roam around the area looking for evidence.</li><li>Laser-scanning cameras that capture the crime scene digitise everything for the jurors to analyse.</li><li>Forensics, jury and the entire legal department stands to gain a lot with this new implementation of technology.</li></ul>

Teleporting And Free-Roaming The Virtual Scene

Australian researchers are investigating whether virtual reality can help jurors make decisions at trial, allowing them to explore crime scenes.

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Jurors could use VR to visit crime scenes, and help them reach a verdict

Time compression the phenomenon where time goes by quickly when we&#39;re immersed in something that we&#39;re doing.
This usually happens to people who play video games or movie bingers.

Time Compression

Time Management

Virtual Reality gamers or users experience amplified time compression due to the lack of bodily awareness.
Studies have been done and proved that virtual reality indeed warps one&#39;s perception of time due to being totally immersed in VR and that the environment VR gives is one that prevents a person&#39;s awareness.

Time Compression and Virtual Reality

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<li>VR users unintentionally spend an excessive amount of time in games because VR headsets are becoming more comfortable for long-session usages.</li>
<li>It entails a risk of addiction that is associated with depression and insomnia, thus reducing their ability to tend to their mood and health.</li>
<li>Clocks must always be easily accessible and appear automatically at regular intervals.</li>
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Research Involving Time Compression and Virtual Reality

There are studies that involve the use of VR for patients undergoing therapy who claim to experience time compression effects.
Another study suggests that using VR during sessions as such is a surprisingly effective painkiller due to the power of distraction.
As technology evolves, we hope to see more advancement in this area.

Virtual Reality for Medicine

Ever lose track of time while doing something? It gets worse with a VR headset on. ​

Virtual reality warps your sense of time

Fortnite, an online multiplayer game with millions of players across the world, debuted a virtual concert, complete with tour dates, by Travis Scott during this lockdown period, when multiplayer gaming is seeing a massive surge.

Virtual Concerts

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The innovative ‘astronomical’ virtual concert set a record with 12.3 million players logging in to experience his old and new music. The previous record was the Marshmello show (10 million attendees) on the same platform.
Players were treated to a roller-coaster-like musical ride complete with elements only possible in a virtual environment, setting new benchmarks of an immersive event

New Virtual Experience

The rapper/producer teamed up with Fortnite for Astronomical, a now-record-setting live-stream tour that has elevated the virtual concert experience. Fortnite players have had major game events to look forward to for years, and they get more ambitious each time. Last year's Marshmello show (which had 10 million attendees) provided a glimpse into what virtual concerts would look like moving forward.

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Virtual Reality For Real Crime Scenes

Jurors could use VR to visit crime scenes, and help them reach a verdict

Time Compression

Virtual reality warps your sense of time