CNN catches up with PQL

MO · 11-07-2008, 06:30 AM

During America's election night, CNN unveiled their new hologram technology. A reporter was in Chicago, and her 3D hologram image was transmitted to New York.

Video from YouTube here

leaper1 · 11-07-2008, 07:43 AM

Good one!
Never seen on TV before - Hah!

Snish · 11-07-2008, 08:53 AM

What, no cigar?

Seriously... it's a weird thing to see! A real hologram.

ohboy · 11-07-2008, 12:18 PM

Wow! Lord, technology never ceases to amaze me...

(What's that little, rectangular walkman for?) Yes, that's my first knowledge of an IPOD.

jassian · 11-07-2008, 12:23 PM

wooooooooow!
Now I want to know how they managed to project it!!

- did they project it? Or was it just a 360 view for the screen?

ris768 · 11-07-2008, 06:36 PM

I would have liked to have seen the interviewer walk through the hologram.

laestrella · 11-08-2008, 09:06 AM

i know i nearly woke my parents up (i live at home...i'm 27) when i saw it & started to yell "hologram"!!! my dad & i are science geeks...so it was hard not wake him up. he get excited the day after & my mom just, as usual, rolled her eyes & shook her head in disgust. (she's the artsy one)

Lightning McQueenie · 11-18-2008, 03:59 AM

It's been done.

Prince Charles was once projected as a hologram at a meeting about Climate Change (I think... it's in the Off topic discussions).

Avilos · 12-05-2008, 02:26 AM

CNN was very misleading. Only those who watched this on TV could see this "hologram". Anderson Cooper could not see it in front of him while it was happening.

Snish · 12-05-2008, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avilos

CNN was very misleading. Only those who watched this on TV could see this "hologram". Anderson Cooper could not see it in front of him while it was happening. J

I wondered about that. I was trying to figure out how they could project it on stage in front of him. I guess Cooper did a pretty good job of faking it.

Avilos · 12-05-2008, 04:35 PM

It was just a very elaborate green screen effect.

RossBeckett · 12-06-2008, 01:48 AM

Don Bellisario was predicting the future when he and his fellow QL producers were making the time travel show. The handlink, for instance, is nothing more than a palm pilot that's linked to the net(in reality). The woman(interviewee) was in an imaging chamber, albeit much smaller.

Very neat indeed!

~Steve B.

ohboy · 12-06-2008, 02:36 PM

Speaking of predicting the future, I wonder if he thought we would all be dressing like that in the early-mid 2000s. By that, I'm referring to some of those crazy looking outfits people wore when the current world was shown.

isz · 12-06-2008, 04:31 PM

I'm asking myself the same thing,ohboy.

Snish · 12-06-2008, 05:07 PM

I guess Al didn't have such a big impact on our fashion sense in the early 90s as DPB hoped.

He also thought we would all have houses where the lights, TVs, stereos, etc., would respond to voice commands.

11-07-2008, 06:30 AM	#1
MO Pulse Communications Technician Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: In a tin can in the countryside Posts: 310	CNN catches up with PQL During America's election night, CNN unveiled their new hologram technology. A reporter was in Chicago, and her 3D hologram image was transmitted to New York. Video from YouTube here __________________ "What's left after you go is the good you've left behind." -- Robert Zubrin, American aerospace engineer

11-07-2008, 07:43 AM	#2
leaper1 PQL Security Staff Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Bedford, England Posts: 2,580	Good one! Never seen on TV before - Hah! __________________ Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.(Leo Buscaglia) Helen in Bedford

11-07-2008, 08:53 AM	#3
Snish Observer's Aid Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cocono's in the Poconos Posts: 642	What, no cigar? Seriously... it's a weird thing to see! A real hologram. __________________

11-07-2008, 12:18 PM	#4
ohboy Junior Leaper Join Date: May 2008 Location: Northern California Posts: 1,383	Wow! Lord, technology never ceases to amaze me... (What's that little, rectangular walkman for?) Yes, that's my first knowledge of an IPOD. __________________ "Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing some have unwittingly entertained angels." Dr. Wily is a registered trademark of Capcom, and I don't own the rights to it in anyway, nor do I profit from the avatar.

11-07-2008, 12:23 PM	#5
jassian Project Observer Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 925	wooooooooow! Now I want to know how they managed to project it!! - did they project it? Or was it just a 360 view for the screen? __________________

11-07-2008, 06:36 PM	#6
ris768 Pulse Communications Technician Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 310	I would have liked to have seen the interviewer walk through the hologram. __________________

11-08-2008, 09:06 AM	#7
laestrella Control Room Technician Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: rhode island border Posts: 187	i know i nearly woke my parents up (i live at home...i'm 27) when i saw it & started to yell "hologram"!!! my dad & i are science geeks...so it was hard not wake him up. he get excited the day after & my mom just, as usual, rolled her eyes & shook her head in disgust. (she's the artsy one) __________________ Logan: I already have a job. David North: Lumberjack? Eighteen grand a year? Logan: Eighteen five. And I haven't had to kill anybody. David North: Miss it? Logan: Right about now I am.

11-18-2008, 03:59 AM	#8
Lightning McQueenie Junior Leaper Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,046	It's been done. Prince Charles was once projected as a hologram at a meeting about Climate Change (I think... it's in the Off topic discussions). __________________

12-05-2008, 02:26 AM	#9
Avilos Pulse Communications Technician Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 303	CNN was very misleading. Only those who watched this on TV could see this "hologram". Anderson Cooper could not see it in front of him while it was happening. __________________ Last edited by Avilos; 12-05-2008 at 04:33 PM.

12-05-2008, 04:35 PM	#11
Avilos Pulse Communications Technician Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 303	It was just a very elaborate green screen effect. __________________

12-06-2008, 01:48 AM	#12
RossBeckett Project Observer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Near Cincinnati, OH Posts: 741	Don Bellisario was predicting the future when he and his fellow QL producers were making the time travel show. The handlink, for instance, is nothing more than a palm pilot that's linked to the net(in reality). The woman(interviewee) was in an imaging chamber, albeit much smaller. Very neat indeed! ~Steve B. __________________ "If you love a certain food, go to the source. It's going to be fifty times better!" -Phil Rosenthal (Netflix's Somebody Feed Phil)

12-06-2008, 02:36 PM	#13
ohboy Junior Leaper Join Date: May 2008 Location: Northern California Posts: 1,383	Speaking of predicting the future, I wonder if he thought we would all be dressing like that in the early-mid 2000s. By that, I'm referring to some of those crazy looking outfits people wore when the current world was shown. __________________ "Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing some have unwittingly entertained angels." Dr. Wily is a registered trademark of Capcom, and I don't own the rights to it in anyway, nor do I profit from the avatar.

12-06-2008, 04:31 PM	#14
isz Assistant to Gooshie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Jerusalem,Israel Posts: 445	I'm asking myself the same thing,ohboy. __________________

12-06-2008, 05:07 PM	#15
Snish Observer's Aid Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cocono's in the Poconos Posts: 642	I guess Al didn't have such a big impact on our fashion sense in the early 90s as DPB hoped. He also thought we would all have houses where the lights, TVs, stereos, etc., would respond to voice commands. __________________

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