FARO ZONE 3D 2018 Released for Virtual Reality

FARO has announced the availability of the next generation of the FARO Zone 3D software platform, FARO Zone 3D 2018. The FARO Zone 3D platform is designed to enable investigators and security professionals to enhance the quality of site and evidence capture, documentation, reconstruction, and analysis, for crime, crash, fire, and security applications.

FARO Zone 3D 2018: Revolutionary Software Application for Public Safety Professionals with VR capabilities (PRNewsfoto/FARO Technologies, Inc.)

FARO Zone 3D 2018 is the first VR-enabled software solution for law enforcement and forensics professionals that provides a comprehensive platform for documenting, analyzing, and reconstructing scenes that includes powerful forensic analysis, 3D diagramming and animation tools.

Quickly create 2D and 3D diagrams that accurately match measurements in the scene (PRNewsfoto/FARO Technologies, Inc.)

Additionally, with integrated virtual reality, FARO Zone 3D 2018 enables a completely immersive first-person environment. Users can now revisit and walk through the scene, analyze the events leading up to the scene and create full animated reconstructions of the scene just as if they were there when it happened.

Automated Blood Spatter Analysis dramatically reduces time to find the possible point of origin with convergence from multiple surfaces, and generates comprehensive reports designed for expert testimony. (PRNewsfoto/FARO Technologies, Inc.)

Virtual Reality Analysis

  • Build a repository of training scenarios by turning every scene into a real-world training environment

Create pre-incident plans in 2D and 3D (PRNewsfoto/FARO Technologies, Inc.)

Visual Impact

  • Create stunning diagrams and animations with new smoke, fire, and explosion animations, shadows, moving wheels, and trailer articulation
  • Create dynamic videos with Total View, a unique presentation tool for fly-throughs and walk-throughs of scenes that are ideal for courtroom presentations, classroom training, and security debriefings

Create animations that are especially realistic with the point cloud of the scene as a backdrop (PRNewsfoto/FARO Technologies, Inc.)

Advanced Smart Tools

  • Dramatically increase productivity with the enhanced Blood Spatter Analysis Smart Tool that detects edges of blood droplets and automatically creates trajectory lines through FARO Zone 3D’s artificial intelligence engine
  • Automatically generate courtroom ready reports detailing each trajectory with the enhanced Bullet Trajectory Smart Tool that makes bullet trajectory analysis easier than ever, now featuring elliptical trajectory cones and the ability to extend trajectory lines beyond the plane of impact

Create stunning diagrams and animations with smoke, fire, and other rich graphic features. (PRNewsfoto/FARO Technologies, Inc.)

Extensive Training Support

  • Optimize the beneficial use and return on investment of FARO Zone 3D through unlimited access to live instructor-led online training as well as self-paced training modules through the FARO Academy learning management system

Create realistic crash animations in seconds with spinning tires and articulation (PRNewsfoto/FARO Technologies, Inc.)

Sharing and Collaboration

  • Easily share 2D, 3D, and 3D point cloud scenes and videos in the courtroom, across the street, or around the world with the new free, stand-alone, FARO Zone Viewer application

About FARO

FARO is the source for 3D measurement, imaging and realization technology. The company develops and markets computer-aided measurement and imaging devices and software for the following vertical markets:

  • Factory Metrology – High-precision 3D measurement, imaging and comparison of parts and complex structures within production and quality assurance processes
  • Construction BIM-CIM – 3D capture of as-built construction projects and factories to document complex structures and perform quality control, planning and preservation
  • Public Safety Forensics – Capture and analysis of on-site real-world data to investigate crash, crime and fire, plan security activities and provide virtual reality training for public safety personnel
  • Product Design – Capture detailed and precise 3D data from existing products permitting CAD analysis and redesign, after market design and legacy part replication
  • 3D Machine Vision – 3D vision for both control and measurement to the manufacturing floor through 3D sensors and custom solutions

FARO’s global headquarters is located in Lake Mary, Florida. The Company also has a technology center and manufacturing facility consisting of approximately 90,400 square feet located in Exton, Pennsylvania containing research and development, manufacturing and service operations of our FARO Laser Tracker and FARO Cobalt Array Imager product lines. The Company’s European regional headquarters is located in Stuttgart, Germany and its Asia-Pacificregional headquarters is located in Singapore. FARO has other offices in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Turkey, the Netherlands, Switzerland, India, China, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, and Australia.

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