Global Tel-Link Corporation filed a patent for a new virtual reality software that aims to license prisons that will mock their inmates with a fake digitized freedom. According to the description of the Global Tel-Link app, its RV service would allow inmates “for a short time, to imagine themselves outside or outside the controlled environment.” Viouslybviamente, there is no way in hell that this is cheap for inmates, who already pay offensive amounts for phone access.
The news comes courtesy of an announcement by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which sets out the latest and most horrific example of progress within the highly lucrative panopticon industrial complex. While the idea initially evokes images of prisoners wearing VR headsets tied to their heads inside oppressive prison cells to evoke open meadows and blue skies, it looks like the patent will most likely be used to video chat with beings. estimates similar to Skype or Zoom sessions.
Aside from the horrific psychological toll that would be inflicted on jailed bodies, an EFF staff technician explained Large plate that the invention “will also erode the last vestiges of personal connection between prisoners and their loved ones abroad and provide prisons with another avenue of surveillance.” TGIF.
Augmented reality also for security guards – Prisoners aren’t the only members of the Global-Tel Link panopticon hoping to extract money. The company also filed an additional patent detailing an augmented reality system for correctional officers to aid in the surveillance and surveillance of inmates, or, as the EFF describes it, “essentially” Google Glass: Editing the Prison “”.
This usable technology aspires to allow guards the ability to use facial recognition on inmates to display information such as names and crimes, along with the detection of “rogue radio frequency signal” for contraband phones. “In addition, it appears to have object detection powers and can highlight any dangerous or contraband object such as weapons or open doors that should be closed,” the EFF explains. Of course, if this type of RA product sees the light of day, it will certainly cost prisons millions of dollars to license and use them … much of which would obviously come from taxpayer money. If the idea of paying for the Oculus Quests of the prison guards disturbs you, congratulations: you are still a rational and human person who works.