CNN has holograms

[capt_weasle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7fQ_EsMJMs&NR=1

So, do you think this is real, or just an election night gimmick to make people amused?

[Spawn of Yanni]

Yeah, we were trying to figure this out during lessons yesterday. My initial reaction was that he's staring at a point and the hologram is Star Wars'd in for TV viewers... but if that's the case, that's incredibly stupid. The audience would have to play along awkwardly, he'd look like an idiot, and it would generally be a pretty dumb gimmick. I'd like to believe it's something amazing, but I just can't see it being done for real.

[Eiturlyf]

That is incredibly stupid and fake.

How could anyone actually beleive that? O_o

[everythingfromatoz]

Fake. Notice the fact how 'crowds were gathering.' People would see a women talking to a projetion of a CNN newsperson.
Plus, THINK OF THE TECHNOLOGY! A holographic device! Who made it, why? Why would they not say anything about it?


I rest my cyber-case.

[blue_tetris]

They didn't beam Wolf back to her. They beamed her to Wolf.



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[scythe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7fQ_EsMJMs&NR=1

So, do you think this is real, or just an election night gimmick to make people amused?

Yeah, the first working sci-fi style hologram projectors were demonstrated by CNN. Not NASA, not the military, not the Kremlin, not the Japanese, but CNN.
I find that likely.

[Atilla]

Yeah, the first working sci-fi style hologram projectors were demonstrated by CNN. Not NASA, not the military, not the Kremlin, not the Japanese, but CNN.
I find that likely.

Well, Wolf Blitzer does have the world's most science fiction-y name.

Seriously, though, even if CNN's little stunt was real, which it wasn't, it wouldn't be the first working hologram projector. They're actually commercially available, and have been used in museums, trade exhibitions and business presentations.