In “Virtual becomes reality at Stanford,” the San Francisco Chronicle looks at several projects using virtual reality to study how digital technologies can transformed human social interactions. One of these projects is a virtual police lineup where witnesses can view the suspects from any angle and in a virtual environment similar to where the crime has happened. The lineup suspects can also have virtually the same weight or height, and even very similar clothing or hair styles. Even if the experiments done with students on eyewitness testimony are successful, it will not arrive to police stations before more studies are done.

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