Last month, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department demoed the Apple Vision Pro as it looks to add capabilities in its Real-Time Operations Center, a new unit within the agency that pools together all manner of data, from license plate reads to mobile phone locations to historical criminal records. Typically, this data is visualized on large dashboards across multiple screens.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department CIO Dave Fontneau told Forbes that he’d used the headset to remotely access a virtual version of that real-time crime center, from which he could view maps and police databases, and subsequently do things like deploy officers to a location. This could, one day, remove the need for expensive, centralized real-time crime centers with myriad screens for displaying the data, Fontneau said.
Fontneau said Apple’s tool was a natural fit for real-time crime surveillance centers. “I was able to put on the headset and transport myself into the environment and manipulate different aspects,” Fontneau said. “I was able to manipulate maps and bring them up in a 3D environment, move assets, place officers in vehicles and manipulate camera feeds. It was eye opening.