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By: Enric

Enric — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:25:24 +0000

Robin,

A news organization, especially one reputable like CNN, should make it's information clear and available to most of it's audience. But, it also has a responsibility to be accurate and informative. Journalists work with words to make them accurate, intelligent and understandable to viewers. Rather than go for hyperbolic language. It's the responsibility of a news organization to find accurate words.

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:32:47 +0000

The Geeks want Wolf to use the Holograms from Musion

http://www.musion.co.uk/index.html

But that technology has already been rolled out years ago at the MTV Awards in 2005 with the Gorrilas Performance .

http://www.musion.co.uk/Gorillaz_MTV_Awards.html

The tech CNN used was pretty cool even if it was unpolished and guess what people are still talking about it so they got the reaction and impact thery wanted .

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:21 +0000

I hear alot of people complaining about CNN calling it a hologram when it is technically not a hologram but I have a question for these people- what do you expect them to call it? It’s technically not a green screen either! The network is in a position where they have to convey information in a way that the majority of people will understand. Fact is, most people could care less if it’s a ‘true’ hologram or not! Only the geeks will get their pullups in a bunch over this! How many times have you geeks (and yes, only geeks are bothered by this) had to dumb down the explanation of something very technical almost to the point of it being totally inaccurate to get some lay person to understand even vaugely what you were talking about? Same thing here! Most people appreciate a cool special effect but you’ll start losing those same people when you start throwing technobabble out at them. As a news provider you don’t want to start losing your viewers by talking over their heads. Sure Wolf Blitzer could say: Well lets bring Jessica Yellin in via realtime 3d compositing by HD camera array system or whatever the technology is actually called, or they can simply say ‘hologram’ and move on to the story they are trying to cover. Oh and I’ll let you in on a secret: That “magic wall” that CNN has? It’s not really magic! OH THE HORRORS! THE LIES!

By: lologram

lologram — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:41:27 +0000

Yeah, the word “hologram” is inaccurate… stop calling it that please.

By: Enric

Enric — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:19:20 +0000

Liz,

There used to be a Hologram gallery on Haight Street in San Francisco before the park. I would stop there in the late 80’s and early 90’s looking in the dark at hologram plates lighted. A floating images above the lighted plates would change perspective as you moved around them. But you could easily see through the image, there was limited perspective range and it was nowhere close to the Star Wars hologram chess game.

Wikipedia has an article on Holograms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography . There’s probably other sources that are worth looking into.

;)

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:10:23 +0000

Brian and Enric, you have to go and burst the bubble! Where would I be able to learn more about actual holograms?

By: Brian Hogg

Brian Hogg — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:38:53 +0000

From what I've heard, this was actually just bluescreening using a bunch of different cameras, which puts it, to my way of thinking, slightly above the nightly weather in terms of interest and newsworthiness.

Now, had it been an ACTUAL hologram, THAT would've been cool.

By: enric

enric — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:23:51 +0000

From what I gather, this is a faux hallogram. Wolf Blitzer is talking into empty space and it’s combined in computer generated editing.

By: John

John — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:17:30 +0000

35 cameras? sorry, thats just dumb. it would have been easier (and WAY better looking) to just have multiple pairs of cameras synced up with motion control.

why have 35 cameras at one location when all you really need is one for each camera that is operating in the live environment?