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Posted on 11/08/2008 at 9:31 am by Bob Cesca

CNN explains how they did that creepy hologram thing.

I’m still trying to figure something out, though.

Why?

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  • http://eclectablog.blogspot.com Eclectablog

    Seriously. That was the most laughably stupid thing to penetrate the media airwaves during the last 21 months of this campaign. An absolutely magnificent display of the expensive use of technology for no logical reason.

  • ceu

    Because they could…

  • josh dobbin

    I am peeved.Granted, it put the SUPER in superfluous, but at the time, from what they were saying, they worked hard to deceive the viewer that Blitzer was actually SEEING a 3D person, floating before him, Palpatine-style.Were that the case, then useless or no, it would still be the textbook definition of awesome. But what it only existed in the composite feed! Big whoop.It means that there’s enough advances in real-time floating point computations to calculate and send complex video streams, but that’s not a HOLOGRAM.Boo!

  • J M Ashby

    Holographics are actually coming to reality soon. There are even digital storage systems that use holographic technology.But what CNN did was just deception. I had to explain to my mother that Blitzer couldn’t really see her and that it was just a trick.

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    I found it ironic that the guy touted the technology as a way to make the interviewing environment more “intimate”.If this guy’s idea of intimate is for the “guest” to be corralled inside an insanely brightly lit 360 degree uniformly green circular pen – staring into darkness as a voice interrogates her, he must really WoW his wife on anniversaries!!”I’m so happy we’re together, honey.”"yea, great – now, a little to the left, and smile like you’re having a great time.”

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Wow. I’m really surprised by the negative backlash here. I thought it was the neatest thing, and while I’m slightly disappointed that it was not a true hologram in the studio with Wolf, I’m not mad at ‘em for that.Wolf gave an onscreen explanation which made some degree of sense – how to hear the commentator away from the noise s/he was surrounded by. Jessica Yellin is small, and notably, doesn’t yell very well over the noise. Bringing her in filtered from noise and crowds meant you could hear and see her without distraction. OTOH, I thought it was odd because its always kinda fun to hear and see the crowds around the commentators. So there wasn’t much to be gained in this instance. OTOH – the fact that it was done is an advancement in technology in broadcast media, and I thought it was really neat. I look forward to seeing more applications of the technology.QT

  • Bob_Cesca

    >>Wow. I’m really surprised by the negative backlash here.Hehe. Yeah, I think the nut of it, my Queen, is that the press should spend more time and money on reporting and fact-checking and less time and money on making their coverage look like Chewbacca’s chess table.

  • Rogect8

    I’m reasonably certain it’s an attempt to pull ahead in the imaginary pissing contest that’s going on between the cable news channels…

  • Teaflax

    Why? The only reason I can figure is to make you want to kill everyone at CNN who green-lighted it and made it happen. I can’t imagine another reaction, so I can’t figure that the reasoning behind it could be anything but that.

  • Teaflax

    Also, calling it a hologram is a lie, so maybe that’s the reason; to show us that CNN cannot be trusted to tell us the truth?