Winner of the Enterprise & Productivity category at the Laval Virtual Awards 2026, the JANUS software, developed by the Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, took home the prize awarded on 9 April at the Espace Mayenne. Held in Laval for 28 years, Europe’s largest XR event recognises the most promising XR projects each year across a range of categories. The Enterprise & Productivity category honours XR applications that concretely transform the way organisations work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Crime and accident scenes are today captured with remarkable technical precision: laser scanners, terrestrial or aerial photogrammetry, LiDAR sensors, GNSS systems. The problem is no longer the quality of the capture, but its exploitation. These tools generate massive volumes of heterogeneous data that are difficult to interpret for magistrates, lawyers or jurors who, by definition, have no physical access to the scene.<\/p>\n\n It was this observation that gave rise to JANUS, a project initiated two years ago by a gendarmerie officer and developed entirely in-house by a team of four engineers at the Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale (IRCGN). On stage, the project was presented by its lead, who was keen to acknowledge what this prize represents for the technical forces of the gendarmerie. “Our institute is here to bring scientific evidence to criminal facts. The project started from a field need: to transform digitised data into an interactive digital twin.”<\/p>\n\nFrom laser scanner to digital twin<\/h2><\/h2>\n\n