Bodybags, rats, waste: Disaster response turns to VR for grim training


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 27 Mar 2019

A Thai forensic police officer wearing a virtual reality headset before searching for victims in a simulated city in ruins at the police headquarters in Chon Buri province.

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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