South Korea deploys hologram police officer

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3322654/south-korea-deploys-hologram-police-officer-fight-crime-and-its-working

24•amichail•5h ago

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PaulHoule•5h ago

This has to be something like Pepper's Ghost right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

crooked-v•4h ago

From the photo, I would bet it's a projection onto a person-shaped glass or plastic standee, maybe with some texturing and projection mapping to add a "3D" effect.

trenchpilgrim•2h ago

There's a video; It's literally just a projector pointed at a flat human shaped board

canpan•4h ago

Staff helps! I had this thought today taking the train here in Japan, why I feel safe compared to other countries. Every station is staffed with a real person. Most trains have at least two people in them. One driver and a second staff announcing and checking doors. The staff is clearly visible and in uniform. I know Japans base safety level is higher than the rest of the world. But I think putting trained staff in uniform on display would improve the situation everywhere.

adikso•2h ago

I don't live in Japan, but I don't remember being in a train where there wouldn't be at least two people from the staff in uniforms. Could you explain what you have in mind? Are there trains without drivers or without people checking tickets?

Fire-Dragon-DoL•1h ago

The skytrain in Vancouver, Canada, has nobody from staff and it's fully automated. Really cool.

a012•4h ago

It’s working because:

> people were too scared to enter a park with a “ghost police officer”

esafak•3h ago

A scarecrow for humans.

gus_massa•4h ago

> It pops up every two minutes to deliver a pre-recorded audio message reminding passers-by that they are being watched by security cameras

Was the reduction of crime caused by the image or by the cameras?

olyjohn•2h ago

Or was it because it attracted more people to the area, making criminals less likely to hang around?

pizzly•3h ago

I can imagine cameras connected to AI. AI detects crime in action (beating or something) and initiates the hologram which says cease now the police are coming . Might prevent a a crime from becoming bigger.

makeitdouble•3h ago

The article has no mention of how the crime rate is going outside of the park...is there good sources on the subject ?

Looking around, Numbeo keeps an index every year, and for South Korea in general it went from 25.5 to 24.9 for 2023->2024, with a general downward trend since 2021.

Cute story, but looks like crime rate is going down more broadly ?

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...

zipping1549•29m ago

From a South Korean news article (translated using llm):

> The police installed human-sized holograms in this park last October. The videos played daily from 7 PM to 10 PM. Analyzing crime occurrences for eight months until May of this year, it was found that the number of major crimes (murder, robbery, rape, theft, violence) within the park's radius decreased by about 22% compared to the same period before the installation (October 2023 to May 2024). This park was a place with frequent reports due to drinking, alcohol-related violence, and disturbances.

zdw•3h ago

How long before we get a K-drama where some lonely single falls in love with the hologram?

deepfriedchokes•3h ago

netflix-greenlit.meme

hereme888•3h ago

An owl, but for criminals.

jameslk•2h ago

I wasn’t aware we had suddenly mastered the physics for holograms (I was envisioning something Star Wars esque) but there was no linked video so I looked it up:

https://youtu.be/Sj2Rl4SOJe8

This looks more like a… projection? Not exactly my Star Wars fantasy

DonHopkins•1h ago

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam was having staff shortage problems a few years ago, so they deployed holographic security guards that didn't threaten strikes. The only problem was that people would try to put their arms through real security guards. ;)

https://speld.nl/2022/05/31/schiphol-zet-hologrammen-in-van-...

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