Word: holograms
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...television news stunts go, CNN's debut of a "hologram" reporter during its election-night coverage was one of the most talked about - and yes, bizarre - of the past year. "Hi, Wolf!" chirped beaming CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin, who was in Chicago at the victory rally for President-elect Barack Obama yet miraculously appeared on TV to be standing before anchor Wolf Blitzer in the CNN newsroom, waving - and surrounded by a fuzzy white line. In the studio, Blitzer was talking to empty space, although he could see Yellin on a nearby monitor. "We beamed you in here into...
...Washington bureau chief David Bohrman admits the "hologram" didn't have a great deal of journalistic importance other than that it allowed Blitzer to talk to Yellin without the commotion and noise of the 240,000-strong crowd gathered in Grant Park in Chicago. "I'm not sure the point was terribly deep," he says. "But I do think that if you look 20 years into the future, television will do something like this routinely...
...howls of outrage from science-fiction geeks and engineering purists worldwide, CNN acknowledges that its "hologram" wasn't a hologram at all. The feat was accomplished with a 3-D green-screen digital-composite technique that's been in use for years. Some 40 high-definition cameras arranged in a circle filmed Yellin at the same time against a 360-degree green background; the images were overlaid to make Yellin appear three-dimensional, and the reporter was then digitally pasted into the frame next to Blitzer. Specialized software was used to make sure her image lined up with the movement...
...unveiled the most amazing and goofy innovation, 3-D projections of studio guests speaking to the network's anchors like Princess Leia asking Obi-Wan for help in Star Wars. Anderson Cooper ended an interview with singer and Obama supporter Will.i.am, "Appreciate you being with us tonight by hologram." It was as if CNN had been bought by Lucasfilm...
...won—the Obama cut-out posed for substantially more photo ops over the course of the evening. Before the results had even begun to trickle in, CNN attracted viewers’ attention by showcasing a new technology that allowed a reporter in Chicago to appear as a hologram in the network’s New York studio. In a smaller room off to the side of the Forum, members of the Harvard Republican Club gathered to watch the results in the company of other conservatives. Republican Club president Colin J. Motley ’10 said...