During last night’s election CNN unveiled their hologram technology to beam in correspondents Star Wars-style. Think of Anderson Cooper as R2-D2 and Obama supporter and musician Wil.I.Am as Princess Leia (minus the hair buns) and you get the idea. As Wil.I.Am says, “I’m being beamed to you like it’s Star Wars and stuff.”
Cooper and Wil.I.Am weren’t the only ones using the holograms to chit chat about the election. CNN new correspondent Wolf Blitzer also gave it a go.
Check out Cooper and Wil.I.Am as they geek out on CNN here:
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CNN Can’t Stop Pimping Its Election-Night Holographic Toy
(via io9.com)
Tags: Celebrities, Gadgets, Politics
I gotta call bantha poodoo on this whole hologram hoopla. They’re not in the room with ya. Stop pretending they are! You can’t see them!
This is like weatherman pretending that they’ve actually grown to enormous scale, and are towering over the planet.
Bah.
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Yeah, I read a lot of this “it is just green-screen” and “they cannot see them in the room” stuff on Engadget.
1) If it is just chromakey, then the network is guilty of deception of a truly mind-boggling scale. I do not believe they would just use green-screen and then claim that it was holographic.
2) If it is not chromakey or an overlay, then it is likely to be the same (or a similar) system used in the video holograms of English buffoon Prince Charles and Australian buffoon Shane Warne … and you most definitely CAN see them in the room. They do actually exist as a projected image in reality, they’re not “overlaid”, and they’re not chromakeyed.