It's Not a F*cking Hologram!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 10:55PMOK, I've got a ton of other stuff to write up but this is the second time I've had to smack CNN during this election. THIS IS NOT A HOLOGRAM:
It's a (pretty crappy looking) two-dimensional (hence NOT a HOLOGRAM) green-screen camera trick. It's not all that much more than an updated version of what we were doing in 1985 at Associates and Ferren with an automated, motion-controlled film camera:
Wolf was not seeing anyone in the studio in 3D. THAT would be a hologram. As it says right on Wikipedia, "While holography is commonly used to display static 3-D pictures, it is not yet possible to generate arbitrary scenes by a holographic volumetric display." There is NO technology currently that could project a 3-D image in free space at that scale, regardless of what they showed in Star Wars (which was a MOVIE).
John Huntington
This just popped up in Digg from the CBC and features an interview from a physicist.
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Reader Comments (2)
yup that pissed me off too.. i was like how the hell did cnn get a hold of a hologram machine and no one new about it before that day. that was so lame when i saw it i cringed i couldn't believe they were serious..wolf blitzer must have felt like an ass talking to nothing.
It's okay, people still think the ballroom at the Haunted Mansion is done with holograms.