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["Jim Allman" <jim AT ibang.com>]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:

Pretty cool hologram technology:

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/11/04/cnn_hologram/index.html

That's a cute effect, but to me it looks more like synchronized, motion-controlled cameras in two locations. It might work something like this..

A camera operator in studio A (Wolf Blitzer is there) pans slowly left, and its "twin" camera in studio B matches the motion exactly. Camera B feeds its image (of Jessica Yellin) to some special-effects gear to add the happy glow effect, then forwards the image to studio A to be superimposed onto its feed. (Most likely studio B is a green-screen setup..?)

I see that they're keeping them pretty far apart, probably to make sure Wolf doesn't block her in the frame. I call shenanigans.

  =jimA=