It's Not a F*cking Hologram!

OK, 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:

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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).

Update

on 2008-11-06 12:55 by controlgeek

This just popped up in Digg from the CBC and features an interview from a physicist.