South Korea deploys hologram police officer
(scmp.com)24 points by amichail 7 hours ago
24 points by amichail 7 hours ago
The skytrain in Vancouver, Canada, has nobody from staff and it's fully automated. Really cool.
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:
This looks more like a… projection? Not exactly my Star Wars fantasy
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...
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
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.
Numbeo is entirely based on self-reports by the kinds of people who use Numbeo. For price comparisons you can at least argue that although the prices listed are much too high, it's a realistic representation of how much you're likely to pay if you're a naive Westerner who interacts with locals mainly in English and isn't particularly price-sensitive. But the crime index is entirely based on how worried people are about crime. Considering that most people won't personally become victims of a crime in a given year even in relatively high-crime areas, the crime index tells you more about the people doing the self-reporting than about the level of crime.
This has to be something like Pepper's Ghost right?
There's a video; It's literally just a projector pointed at a flat human shaped board
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-...
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.