While artificial intelligence dominates the media and scientific spotlight, the advent of immersive worlds remains relatively marginal in discussions about digital technology. This is undoubtedly because virtual and augmented reality technologies are still too expensive and not user friendly enough to attract widespread attention and mass consumption. But this situation is already changing, with equipment becoming cheaper and smaller, new uses being invented, and applications multiplying in sectors as varied as industry, education, health… and now also justice.
It would therefore be a mistake not to take an interest now in the first experiments with virtual and augmented reality that are being used in the legal system, even on a purely experimental basis. These technologies, which use computer-generated visual and audio stimuli, have the potential to transform users\u2019 lives: they alter our perception of reality, offer tailor-made individual or collective experiences for specific purposes, create unprecedented relationships between the physical and digital worlds, and offer new ways of interacting with our environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of these situations may, if not challenge, at least question our traditional conceptions of the exercise of justice by renewing them. In line with our mission to explore the possible futures of justice, this third Cyberjustice Europe Conference, organized by the Robert Badinter Institute, the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Cyberjustice Laboratory, and the Council of Europe, gave the floor to research teams and experts who have studied the uses of immersive worlds in order to identify technical, procedural, ethical, and legal issues with regard to fundamental rights, with a view to guiding their possible use in the context of justice missions<\/p>\n\n\n\n