“I just wish I could save them all,” my virtual reality police officer avatar says as he gazes upon a young woman’s abandoned corpse lying beside a back-alley dumpster. My VR cop partner offers a limp ...
POLICE OFFICER AT DERBYSHIRE CONSTABULARY HEADQUARTERS WEARING VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) HEADSET WITH TRAINING TASER, SAYING: "Put the knife down, police officer with a taser" / POLICE OFFICERS TRAINING ...
(TNS) — Wichita police are wanting to test a virtual reality training simulator and a new Taser, with plans to implement them department-wide if the tests are successful. Officials from Arizona-based ...
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Police Department on Wednesday announced a partnership with Axon to pilot the company's virtual reality empathy-based training. The VR training program, offered through Axon ...
VR is already used to help juries understand crime scenes, so it's no surprise it could also be used to better educate police officers. That's the idea behind BEST, a VR police training simulator that ...
RACINE, Wis. - There is never enough training. That's a statement frequently heard from men and women in law enforcement. Thursday, the Racine Police Department unveiled a virtual reality simulator – ...
“You’re the first officer on the scene. You get teleported in and you’re at an office building. You’re moving down the hallway and there’s an avatar on the ground who’s been shot and they’re saying, ...
(TNS) — Sometime next year, officers from four Central Bucks police departments will be entering "virtual reality" to help deal with possible, real-life scenarios where they have to de-escalate a ...
WESTFIELD — The City Council voted unanimously on April 21 to accept a $59,800 state budget earmark to install a virtual reality police training simulator in the Westfield Police Headquarters. Police ...
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Montpelier Police officers will soon be assisted with some new high-tech tools. The department has started using new body cameras and a hands-on, virtual reality approach to ...
Virtual reality improves training at the Tulsa Police Department. VR Training involves officers wearing VR headsets that simulate various scenarios. Officer Ben Brandt said, “It allows us to recreate ...
The San Diego Police Department warned residents on Monday to “cross streets the old-fashioned way” after a video garnered attention showing a man operating a virtual reality (VR) headset while ...