Dutch police looking to fight crime with augmented reality

In a future that looks like a weird combination of RoboCop and CSI, the Dutch national police might be using Microsoft’s Hololens in their day-to-day activities. The project is a collaboration between the police force, the Dutch Forensic Institute, the national fire brigade, Delft University of Technology and AR development agency Twnkls. As chief inspector Rob Kouwenhoven told Dutch newspaper AD, there are multiple scenarios in which augmented reality could come in handy. The current set-up consists of a smartphone camera stuck to the officer’s shoulder, and another phone wrapped around their wrist, which can be used to mark evidence or leave…
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