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LKA digitally recreates crime scenes with “Holodeck”.
Ralf Breker, head of forensic media technology at the LKA, stands with VR glasses during a press conference in the crime scene virtual reality room (holodeck) of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (LKA). photo
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Could the witness see the deed at all? Where exactly was the perpetrator? The Bavarian LKA has developed a room in which crime scenes can be virtually recreated. This also allows time travel.
The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) wants to use more virtual replicas of crime scenes for investigations in the future. On Monday, LKA President Harald Pickert, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann and Digital Minister Judith Gerlach (both CSU) presented the LKA’s 670,000 euro “Tatort Virtual Reality Room” in Munich – “Holodeck” for short.
Thanks to high-tech and virtual reality goggles, the investigators can visit crime scenes that have been precisely recreated virtually and three-dimensionally in the approximately 70 square meter room and thus check witness statements, for example.
“The holodeck is revolutionizing modern crime scene and investigative work,” said Herrmann. “In the holodeck, our investigators can trace almost every conceivable sequence of events.” With the project, the Bavarian LKA is taking on “a pioneering role throughout Germany”. Gerlach summed it all up like this: “hunting criminals with high-tech”.
According to LKA information, the entrance to the Oktoberfest in 1980, for example, where a bomb killed a dozen visitors and injured more than 200 people, was digitally reconstructed during the test phase. The train accident in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last year had also been virtually recreated, it said.
Invitation from the Ministry of the Interior