Thailand cops turn to VR for disaster response training
A Thai forensic police officer using a virtual reality headset to search for victims in a simulated city in ruins at the police headquarters in Chon Buri province. The 'game' was developed to recreate the daunting challenge of identitying bodies, which can help in repatriating them to families. – AFP pic, March 27, 2019.
A THAI policewoman trudges through waste and ruined buildings looking for bodies – but she needs only a joystick and a virtual reality headset for the grim task, as technology comes to the aid of disaster management training. As around 40 police officers watch her progress on a large screen, officer Chanika Sookreang’s digital double goes from body to body in the ruined city, photographing tattoos, faces – anything that can later be used to establish who the victim was.
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