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post #1 of 29
11/5/08 at 11:49am
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Did anybody see this technology on CNN last night? It was fucking cool.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_141157.html
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post #2 of 29
11/5/08 at 11:56am
Between this and the multi touch screen, CNN seems to just be in love with gadgets for the heck of it. It is kind of cool, but seems totally unnecessary. Was that the only instance they used it?

Maybe a visit by holo-Obama would have been a better use for it.
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post #3 of 29
11/5/08 at 11:57am
I want to know how they snuck this by us. They had holographic technology and didn't tell us?

I'm feeling the same bemusement I did when I heard about China's weather-changing machines.
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post #4 of 29
11/5/08 at 11:57am
It was cool, but a hologram it wasn't. Not by any stretch of the word.
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post #5 of 29
11/5/08 at 11:57am
Weirdly, they interviewed will.i.am from the Black Eyes Peas later in the night via hologram as well. It was just awkward, despite being insanely cool in principle.
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post #6 of 29
11/5/08 at 11:58am
I liked the holographic displays that they did on the table. The gimmicky nature of 'bringing someone into the studio via hologram' was distracting them from concentrating on the election coverage, though. Wolf would spend 5 minutes going on and on about how cool and innovative this new technology is...sorry, but I want election coverage, not Will.I.Am via hologram. Wank off on the new technology some other time.
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post #7 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:00pm
The touch screens were pretty sweet, and I loved the "hologram" of the Capitol, but the interviews didn't work...at all.
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post #8 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:01pm
Still, they weren't holograms. Wolfblitzer did not see anyone in front of him. We saw them digitally on our screens, but the interviewees weren't projected into the CNN studio.
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post #9 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:04pm
I'll agree on the touch screens being well-used, for the most part. You could definitely tell when the commentator was comfortable with the technology, though.
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post #10 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:06pm
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Originally Posted by Diva View Post
Still, they weren't holograms.
That's why I put it in quotes. I don't know a better term for it. Digital projections?

And holy shit CNN, we got it with the Star Wars jokes the first time. And we made better jokes in our chat room. We didn't need a witty Obi Wan line every fucking time you cut to them.
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post #11 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:07pm
Ann Curry spent a great deal of time on NBC's new holodeck last night, too. I thought it was pretty cool, although it was definitely a visual flourish more than anything.
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post #12 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:10pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post
. It is kind of cool, but seems totally unnecessary.
Hollow-gram
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post #13 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:30pm
Big deal, via hologram is how Cheney has been issuing commands to Bush for the last 8 years. Only Cheney's hologram is HUGE.
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post #14 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:34pm
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I heard that the hologram might be REAL!!!

http://www.eyeliner3d.com/

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Originally Posted by Huffington Post Comment
As said before, the holographic projection is real. It is not digital compositing done after the fact. Wolf could actually see the correspondent like that in the studio, and visa versa.

It is based on technology from a german company called MUSION EYELINER. Visit their website- they have a lot of demonstration videos where this has already been done.

As usual, Wolf Blitzer needs to forget his own hype and get his facts straight.

The reason it looked cheesy is that CNN decided to give the correspondent a fake blue outline, and of course announce that this had never been done (which is FALSE). Had they not done that, none of the viewing public would have even known that she wasn't physically in the studio.

Al Gore gave a huge speech at Live Earth in Tokyo last year, from the United States, using this technology
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post #15 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:37pm
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Originally Posted by Minsky View Post
Ann Curry spent a great deal of time on NBC's new holodeck last night, too. I thought it was pretty cool, although it was definitely a visual flourish more than anything.
I just wish they'd dressed Ann Curry in some Athenian warrior-princess garb to go with the Greek architectural columns in the NBC holodeck.
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post #16 of 29
11/5/08 at 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by Rob Rocco View Post
I just wish they'd dressed Ann Curry in some Athenian warrior-princess garb to go with the Greek architectural columns in the NBC holodeck.
Or if Brian Williams said "Now we go to Ann Curry, who's broadcasting from a stately mountaintop temple in Naboo."

Here's a clip that explains (kinda) how the hologramming technology works. It looks like a you're seeing a cleverly directed reflection rather than an actual hologram, much like the ghosts in Disney's Haunted Mansion ride. Boo.
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post #17 of 29
11/5/08 at 1:05pm
Meh. When I can fuck the holos I'll be interested.
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post #18 of 29
11/5/08 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by nekkerbee View Post
Meh. When I can fuck the holos I'll be interested.
God bless YOU nekkerbee.
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post #19 of 29
11/5/08 at 4:31pm
“Wait a minute. Where’d she go? Bring her back, play back the entire message!”

Why wasn't there an obligatory "I'm walking right thru you" moment???
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post #20 of 29
11/5/08 at 5:30pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
Why wasn't there an obligatory "I'm walking right thru you" moment???
Will.i.am moved his arms really fast as they faded him out to see how it would look.
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post #21 of 29
11/5/08 at 6:07pm
Wait... a noble, sage black President? Holograms?

We are offically living in... THE FUTURE!!!

During the coverage I had to go and check my calender to make sure it wasn't 2045.
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post #22 of 29
11/5/08 at 6:13pm
Christ, another unfunny McCartney post. They're legion.
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post #23 of 29
11/5/08 at 6:14pm
Have a cry.
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post #24 of 29
11/5/08 at 6:14pm
Between the 38 political analysts on set, the Star Trek hologram and John King drawing lines on his big IPhone, CNN's coverage was way too overproduced. I watched NBC and MSNBC the whole night.
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post #25 of 29
11/5/08 at 6:16pm
"Help me, O'Barack O'Bama...you're my only hope."
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post #26 of 29
11/5/08 at 8:38pm
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...holograms.html

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CNN's holograms not really holograms

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | 2:13 PM ET
By Peter Nowak, CBC News

CNN made waves on Tuesday night by incorporating three-dimensional holograms into its coverage of the U.S. election. The only problem was, they weren't really holograms.

"They were quite sophisticated, no doubt," said Hans Jürgen Kreuzer, a professor of theoretical physics at Dalhousie University and an expert on holography who watched the 3-D interviews. "But I immediately said to my wife that I don't think it has anything to do with holograms."

At about 7 p.m. EST, reporter Jessica Yellin, who was in Chicago, spoke with New York-based anchor Wolf Blitzer live "via hologram," CNN said.

Yellin appeared somewhat fuzzy and her image, apparently projected a few feet in front of Blitzer, appeared to glow around the edges. "You're a terrific hologram," Blitzer said to her.

"It's like I follow the tradition of Princess Leia," she said, referring to the Star Wars character.

Yellin explained that her image was being filmed in Chicago by 35 high-definition cameras set in a ring inside a special tent, which were processed and synchronized by 20 computers to the cameras in the New York studio.

The network, which made use of three-dimensional imaging technology produced by Norway-based Vizrt and Israel-based SportVu, billed the interview as a first for television. CNN also aired a second "hologram" interview between anchor Anderson Cooper and rapper Will.I.Am, who was also in Chicago.

The CNN anchors were not really speaking to three-dimensional projected images, but rather empty space, Kreuzer said. The images were simply added to what viewers saw on their screens at home, in much the same way computer-generated special effects are added to movies.

Kreuzer said the images were tomograms, which are images that are captured from all sides, reconstructed by computers, then displayed on screen.

Holograms, on the other hand, are projected into space.

CNN officials could not be reached for comment.

Kreuzer said technology is not far from being able to produce what CNN had tried to do, although capturing and projecting holograms of big objects like people is still a ways off.

Holographic images are generally captured and projected using coherent light such as lasers. A laser would need to be more than six feet in diameter to capture a person's image, which Kreuzer said is impossible because such a light would be blinding.

It may soon be possible to capture and project large objects using other sources of coherent light, such as light-emitting diodes. LEDs are considerably cheaper and safer than lasers, Kreuzer said.

"There will be some rapid development now because of the cheapness of these LEDs," he said. "You can use a thousand if you want."
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post #27 of 29
11/6/08 at 1:08am
Video of the Silver Fox talking to will.i.am fake-o-gram.

Skip towards the end to see willi shaking his arms so you can see a "cool" wavy effect.
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post #28 of 29
11/6/08 at 1:41am
Anderson was not impressed.
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post #29 of 29
11/6/08 at 11:35am
Controversy! Real or not real? Who to believe??? I'm just gonna hop on my hoverboard and head down to Cafe 80s for a Pepsi, while I mull it over. I sure hope those damn dirty apes don't start any trouble.
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