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06-11-2008, 02:56 PM
http://img.labnol.org/di/jessicayellin.jpg
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2422025,00.html
New York - CNN viewers saw double on Tuesday when the cable news giant used a hologram to "beam up" a reporter from Chicago to New York for election analysis. How did they do it?
Like a character out of the science fiction movie Star Wars, veteran political anchor Wolf Blitzer used a 3D hologram system to transport correspondent Jessica Yellin into his studio.
Yellin, a little fuzzy and appearing to glow, conducted a brief discussion with Blitzer before vanishing again.
"You're a terrific hologram," Blitzer told the image.
Yellin explained to viewers that her body was actually still in Chicago, with 35 cameras filming her inside a special tent.
"They shoot my body at different angles and I'm told that's what transmits my entire body image back to New York," she said.
"It's like I follow the tradition of Princess Leia," she said, referring to the Star Wars heroine.
Underneath - for what CNN said was the first time in television history - the screen announced: "Jessica Yellin via hologram from Chicago. Live."
They chose to unveil the technology in the midst of CNN's wall-to-wall coverage of the historic US election on Tuesday pitting underdog Republican John McCain against Democrat Barack Obama, who is bidding to become the nation's first African-American president.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/06/holographic.television/index.html
The reason for renewed optimism in three-dimensional technology is a breakthrough in rewritable and erasable holographic systems made earlier this year by researchers at the University of Arizona.
Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university's Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_en_tv/tv_cnn_s_hologram
The hologram left some critics baffled. "It was a cute trick," wrote Tom Shales in The Washington Post, "but how did it substantially contribute to the coverage? No one seemed to know."
So, any thought as to whether this is real or not? Also, what does it mean for us as gamers?
I really dont see people being able to afford this in their homes, so will it only ever be accessible when watching news etc?
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2422025,00.html
New York - CNN viewers saw double on Tuesday when the cable news giant used a hologram to "beam up" a reporter from Chicago to New York for election analysis. How did they do it?
Like a character out of the science fiction movie Star Wars, veteran political anchor Wolf Blitzer used a 3D hologram system to transport correspondent Jessica Yellin into his studio.
Yellin, a little fuzzy and appearing to glow, conducted a brief discussion with Blitzer before vanishing again.
"You're a terrific hologram," Blitzer told the image.
Yellin explained to viewers that her body was actually still in Chicago, with 35 cameras filming her inside a special tent.
"They shoot my body at different angles and I'm told that's what transmits my entire body image back to New York," she said.
"It's like I follow the tradition of Princess Leia," she said, referring to the Star Wars heroine.
Underneath - for what CNN said was the first time in television history - the screen announced: "Jessica Yellin via hologram from Chicago. Live."
They chose to unveil the technology in the midst of CNN's wall-to-wall coverage of the historic US election on Tuesday pitting underdog Republican John McCain against Democrat Barack Obama, who is bidding to become the nation's first African-American president.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/06/holographic.television/index.html
The reason for renewed optimism in three-dimensional technology is a breakthrough in rewritable and erasable holographic systems made earlier this year by researchers at the University of Arizona.
Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university's Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_en_tv/tv_cnn_s_hologram
The hologram left some critics baffled. "It was a cute trick," wrote Tom Shales in The Washington Post, "but how did it substantially contribute to the coverage? No one seemed to know."
So, any thought as to whether this is real or not? Also, what does it mean for us as gamers?
I really dont see people being able to afford this in their homes, so will it only ever be accessible when watching news etc?