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So what did people think of CNN's hologram technology? I thought it was kind of goofy and Wolf Blitzer saying it lends greater intimacy without people being distracting in the background is hardly a selling point. If that's really the issue, then why not just stick the correspondent in a tent by herself like she had to for the hologram? If this catches on, it's essentially an amped up "I'm reporting live but nothing is going on right now."
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Re: CNN's Hologram Tech
I am disgusted that none of the people appearing on it had the wit to say, "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" and hold this cheap publicity stunt up to the ridicule it so richly deserves.
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Re: CNN's Hologram Tech
Well, less sophisticated when you look at the actual clip. It didn't look as good as an average green screen composite does, especially if you consider the fact that HD cameras were used for the hologram bit. It does look cool, I'll admit, but how useful will it be?
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Re: CNN's Hologram Tech
I read an article that claimed that the hologram could have looked better, but they deliberately added the blue tinge to make it clear that she wasn't just standing in the room.
It seemed pretty pointless to me. There was nothing that it provided that you wouldn't get by a plain ordinary on-location link, and was just a chance for CNN to show off. And I didn't think it was much to show off, because the whole thing was just composited for us at home. Had the hologram been visible in the studio to Wolf Blitzer, that would at least have been cool technology to watch, but as it is it was just a more advanced green screen.
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Re: CNN's Hologram Tech
It was stupid, and I don't like how the real anchor has to make-pretend that he is looking at a person when he is really just looking at an empty part of the studio set (since he cannot see the "hologram" since it is not a hologram. Also, calling it a "hologram" when it is just a fancy chroma key is misleading.
On another channel, it may have been ABC, there was a reporter walking around a circular rotunda that was completely animated. It looked like it had been animated in the late 1980s it was so fake looking.
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