Hologram reporter on CNN

[jryan21]

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

This looks pretty cool, if they could only get the aspect ratio right. The only problem is that once people get used to it, it would be nothing for them to just replace the real person with a CGI version.

 

[patrick24601]

To bad that was not actually a hologram. It was just some clever blue screen work.

 

[Firelead]

too bad its a Jedi Mind Trick

 

[Phre0nBurn]

I watched that
CNN pulled out all kinds of tricks today
Some pretty cool shit they have

 

[ArtDeco]

Hologram, my ass. That really wasn't even very good blue screen work - would never have made the cut in Hollywood, yet the non tech people that I was watching the election coverage with thought it was cool as hell. Bah.

 

[johu]

Hologram Will.I.Am was better than hologram reporter.

 

[subigo]

Hologram, my ass. That really wasn't even very good blue screen work - would never have made the cut in Hollywood, yet the non tech people that I was watching the election coverage with thought it was cool as hell. Bah.

Agreed.

 

[acemenace]

She's standing like a midget getting butt fucked.

 

[SeoReborn]

fake

 

[guerilla]

WE BEAMED YOU IN!

WE BEAMED YOU IN!

This is ground control to Wolf Blitzer!

 

[popeye]

Anything to try and catch up with the ratings that Fox News recieves.

Fuckin weak at that.

 

[thunderlips]

Anything to try and catch up with the ratings that Fox News recieves.

Fuckin weak at that.

Popeye, we may not agree politically, but we do agree that this hologram is BS. it looks like Shit, AND Jimmy Kimmel did it better a couple of years ago with Howard Stern.

FAIL!

 

[gabrielgfx]

ehh that looks soo fake... like a ghetto hologram

 

[erisch]

Nordmenn står bak CNNs «Star Wars»-teknologi - VG Nett om Media

According to this article the guys behind the hologram are Norwegian and where asked by cnn to make the hologram look fake so that the viewers would know it was not real.

 

[zany zoroaster]

I saw an interview with a manager at the company who did the hologram effects for CNN, and he said that CNN specifically asked for it to not look exactly like a human. He says they added the sloppy halo around the hologram, and made it smaller than life size, so that people would be aware that that's a hologram and not a real person.
Could be a bunch of bull though...

 

[HarveyJ]

Argh! It's not a hologram... What they used was a tomogram, some decent real-time software, and a bad insert.

A hologram would have meant that they could actually see her in the studio, and they were filming a projection of light... which they weren't at any point in time. Hence the need to add the flickers and halo... Which you still are unlikely to get with modern holography.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24616216-5014239,00.html

 

[AUTOATTACKER007]

Check out this video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&feature=user

imagine combining this with holographic
it will be the ultimate experience!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CRViE4N-u5Y


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