Whenever a disaster situation arises, the first thing that the first responders do is to collect the accurate information about the environment they are going to enter. The first responders having this foresightedness about the building layouts, the locations of impassable obstacles, fires or chemical spills can normally be the only thing between life or death for the one that is trapped inside. In the current situation, the first responders have to rely on their experience and observations for rescuing the trapped victim which is not always feasible. Sometimes, it may happen that the victim may perish before he gets
rescued as the area to be entered is not safe enough to enter. Moreover, with this above mentioned foresighted knowledge, the first responders are sent a drone in advance in the form of an unreliable 2D video feed.
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The team at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which is famously known as DARPA developed a technology that empowers the first responders to explore a disaster area without putting themselves at any risk. Virtual Eye is a software system that is capable of capturing and transmitting a video feed and convert it into a real-time 3D virtual reality experience. It is made possible by combining cutting-edge 3D imaging software, powerful mobile graphics processing units, and the video feed from any two cameras. This allows the first responders including soldiers and firefighters to walk through a real environment like a room, bunker or any enclosed area virtually without any physical entrance.
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The Virtual Eye users get the opportunity to take a note of the layout, visualize any hazards, identify optimal paths of entry or potentially locate the survivors without any risk. Two drones or robots would be inserted into a debatable environment, each outfitted with a camera. The cameras will be critically placed at different points in the room with resisting viewpoints. Then both the video feeds would be fused together with the Virtual Eye software and converted into a 3D view, and it will conjecture any missing data using the 3D imaging software to complete the real-time virtual reality feed.
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