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jonknee on Nov 5, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works

While I'm sure it's tricky to send and crunch that much data in real-time, it ended up looking really bad. Amateur hour. There was a giant blue fringe around her the whole time. The Star Trek "beam in" effect to start the interview didn't help.

To top it off it was nothing like a hologram--it was all virtual. Wolf was just looking at a TV monitor off set like he would with any other remote interview.

timr on Nov 5, 2008 | [–]

I just kept thinking: "help us Obama-Wan, you're our only hope!"

And it sorta made it palatable.

dougp on Nov 5, 2008 | [–]

I seem to be the only one that liked it. I am sure they can project the 2d image on to some smoke in the future.

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