CNN’s hologram interview was a fake
by Geoffrey.Cruz on 06/11/08 at 11:51 am
During Election Day 2008 last Tuesday, CNN made waves when they conducted the very first “hologram interview” in their Election Day coverage. During Election Day, reporter Jessica Yellin, who was at Chicago, was conversing with Wolf Blitzer, who was in New York, through a “hologram” image, which was similar, as pointed out by Yellin, to what the Princess Leia character did in Star Wars. Later on that night, Anderson Cooper also conducted an interview with Black Eyed Peas lead man Will.I.Am, who was also in Chicago, using the same “hologram” technology. How the technology works, according to Yellin, was that the interviewees, Yellin and Will.I.AM, were filmed in a tent in Chicago using 35 high-definition camaras set in a ring and was transmitted using 20 synchronized computer and sent the data to the computers at the New York studio. Well apparently, Hans Jürgen Kreuzer, a professor of theoretical physics at Delhousie University, said that he doesn’t believe that those were legitimate holograms. According to Kreuzer, the images that the audience saw were just tomograms, which are just images that capture every side of the subject and then is added to the screen. It works in a similar fashion to computer-generated graphics in movies and television shows. This is unlike holograms, which would be projected into empty space. So instead of talking to an image, the anchors were just talking to dead space. CNN were unavailable for comment. Kreuzer said that holograms are still possible, but to use lazers would be damaging since lazer lights are blinding. Kreuzer suggested that LEDs should be used because they are cheap and more safe and effective. So for all those who thought CNN had made technological strides, think again.
- Geoff
[Source: CBCNews]
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