Monday 25 May 2015

Life-sized screens in virtual courtroom

A mock trial in a virtual courtroom was apparently conducted last week using life-sized video screens. The arrangement of life-sized screens in the courtroom sought to create an immersive environment.

Such technology may represent some improvement, although it still focuses on the visual aspects of legal procedure while ignoring the significance of the other senses.

http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/wig-chamber/news/16538-trial-by-immersive-video-link-a-world-first


I've been writing about these issues in a draft journal article submission 'Video links from prison: phenomenology and carceral space' - and in my thesis of course - from the perspective of prisoners and their experience of  video technologies from prison.

The courtroom endpoint of video technology is very, very different from the prison endpoint.

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