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this is pretty cool the remote correspondent is displayed via holographic technology to the in studio correspondent. maybe now we can eliminate the goofy people standing behind a journalist making funny faces and saying hi to their mothers.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/04/blitzer.yellin.hologram.obama.cnn
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That's pretty neat technology. I'm guessing that Wolf wasn't actually seeing her that way in the studio. I'm thinking he probably had to just pretend she was there - just like the weather reporters do their presentations in front of a blank screen with an off-camera monitor to show them how it appears. So I imagine he was standing in the studio but her "hologram' was just inserted electronically into what was broadcast.
One of the other networks also used a 'Holographic' display of sorts. They had a Presidential seal on the floor and it would do a virtual 3d transformation to rise up out of the floor and display various election-related data while the reported interacted with it like it was really there.
Both effects in their infancy strike me as more gimmicky than useful. Perhaps in time they'll loose the gimmick factor.
Regards, Ross
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It seems that this technology like many others is driven by potential profit. Here is a youtube video of similar technology from cisco.
Now the interesting thing to me is can this be done electronically via an application like Sketchup using 3 Dimensional models. IE what if you could simulate the 35 HD cameras in a 3d application and have those simulated cameras sending video feeds just like the real camera except they are focused on the 3d object in the computer. Now could we display a 3 dimensional "holographic" model to remote locations....Somehow my mind always tries to bring Sketchup into the picture.
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