It's all gone a little sci-fi

Last night CNN held the very first interview via hologram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js6b31_p5cc

It's an amazing technology. I'm slightly confused though, was she standing in front of the guy in the studio, or was all done on the TV screens?

What other technologies from the sci-fi movies have become real life?

Danbo!

Deleted User wrote: »

It's an amazing technology. I'm slightly confused though, was she standing in front of the guy in the studio, or was all done on the TV screens?

I assume she was standing in front of a blue/green screen (you can see the hue around her) and they had a couple of cameras on her. It was all done on the tv screen and the in studio presenter was probably just told where to look.

The in studio presenter did seem to get overly excited about it, when this stuff has been happening on weather reports for years.

phasers

it's only a matter of time until these hologram people take over the world!

5uspect

Wolf Blitzer, Sith Lord.

So..

Wonder when they'll create the first holodeck? I want some hot holo-hookers.

5uspect

Might be, a little ....loose

SEPT 23 1989

Lex Luthor did this years ago Superman 2 i believe

CHD

I for one welcome..........

Actually no i don't

Dragan

noblestee wrote: »

I assume she was standing in front of a blue/green screen (you can see the hue around her) and they had a couple of cameras on her. It was all done on the tv screen and the in studio presenter was probably just told where to look.

The in studio presenter did seem to get overly excited about it, when this stuff has been happening on weather reports for years.

Actualy, for that to be claimed as a real hologram it would basically be a 3D replica light model that the interviewer would indeed have been able to see in the studio.

Pretty sure they way you are describing is not even close to being a hologram.

Danbo!

I never claimed it was a hologram. I assumed CNN had just adapted the whole blue screen thing to a new level and called it a hologram.

EDIT: http://gizmodo.com/5076663/how-the-cnn-holographic-interview-system-works

According to that it was a blue screen job, just with a lot of cameras involved, so basically they could move the cameras in studio, which were synced to the cameras on her, so they would get a seamless effect of a 3D model.

Dragan

noblestee wrote: »

I never claimed it was a hologram. I assumed CNN had just adapted the whole blue screen thing to a new level and called it a hologram.

EDIT: http://gizmodo.com/5076663/how-the-cnn-holographic-interview-system-works

According to that it was a blue screen job, just with a lot of cameras involved, so basically they could move the cameras in studio, which were synced to the cameras on her, so they would get a seamless effect of a 3D model.

Man, what a total pile of ****. I was sitting here thinking, yeah, thats a pretty big step but it's not even a proper goddamn Hologram?

Morons.:pac:

Danbo!

Yeah it really is. I cant see the youtube link at work, but I saw it live last night. If they hadnt gone on so much about it being groundbreaking technology it would have been good, pretty decent way of using blue screen technology. But when you read that used HD technology and 20 computers and 40 cameras, its all a bit, 'meh, why bother?'

Sherifu

Lol, that's cool.

Dragan

noblestee wrote: »

Yeah it really is. I cant see the youtube link at work, but I saw it live last night. If they hadnt gone on so much about it being groundbreaking technology it would have been good, pretty decent way of using blue screen technology. But when you read that used HD technology and 20 computers and 40 cameras, its all a bit, 'meh, why bother?'

Exactly. As a piece of technology it is pretty awesome and i imagine will lead to some interesting steps in communications and even cinematography but you really need that live projected interface into the user environment before you can claim it's a proper hologram.

For me anyways!