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Boing Boing Gadgets: CNN's election night coverage will use holographic interviewees
Gizmodo: CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer [Election]
CrunchGear: CNN to use 3D holograms as part of its election coverage tonight
Engadget: CNN's Wolf Blitzer to interview hologram strategists on election night
CNN's election night coverage will use holographic interviewees
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... it appear as if he or she is in the Manhattan studio with Blitzer. The network plans to conduct similar holographic interviews with representatives from the McCain campaign in Phoenix.I bet dollars to dreadnaughts that the holograms will appear as translucnet, flickering representations of the interviewees, even though it would be just as easy to make them appear solid and corporeal. Star Wars has taught us all that holograms should be wraithlike and wispy.
Election-night news to co-star latest technology [USAToday.com via Guardian via ...
CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer [Election]
Gizmodo —
... his location crunching the video feeds to produce 360-degree imaging data. All of that stuff is sent to New York, where the images are processed and projected by another array of cams and comps. then, plasma TVs back in Chicago and Phoenix will let the interviewees see Wolf and the other CNN people. CNN can project two different views from each city, so Wolf can be flanked by two different holograms. Man, I so know where I'm watching the election coverage. The future. [USA Today via The Guardian via Waxy via BBG, Whew] ...
CNN to use 3D holograms as part of its election coverage tonight
CrunchGear —
In addition to listening to Ron and Fez tonight, you may want to check out CNN even if Fox News is your preferred network. Why is that? Oh, just the fact that they’ll be using 3D holograms to talk to people “in-studio.” It’s just like Star Wars, the movie series that passed its sell-by date some time ago.
Says USA Today, the mouthpiece of America’s third grade education:
…the Obama spokesperson will be projected as a three-dimensional hologram, making it appear as if he or she is in the ...
CNN's Wolf Blitzer to interview hologram strategists on election night
Engadget —
Filed under: Displays, Misc. GadgetsAs the news networks spend oodles of cash in order to one-up the other with whiz-bang visuals and mind-melting charts, CNN is looking to blow just about everyone else away. As election night officially kicks off in just a few hours, the network's Wolf Blitzer will be conducting interviews with faraway strategists not via the traditional two-pane window, but by hologram. Believe it or not, professionals in Chicago and Phoenix will be beamed live to CNN's New York studios in order to give viewers a look at ...
