CNN: Was it Hologram Or Something Else?

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November 6, 2008 ||

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CNN set new standards in the news and television industry when it aired the election coverage Tuesday night by using "three-dimensional hologram" technology to bring a reporter Jessica Yellin from Chicago to New York studios.

This was pretty remarkable and everyone on the blogosphere reported it. Well, it turns out that it was not really a hologram technology but something else.

First let’s see what is a hologram and later we will we what was it that CNN did.

"Digital holography is the technology of acquiring and processing holographic measurement data, typically via a CCD camera or a similar device. In particular, this includes the numerical reconstruction of object data from the recorded measurement data, in distinction to an optical reconstruction which reproduces an aspect of the object. Digital holography typically delivers three-dimensional surface or optical thickness data. “– Wikipedia.

Anyone who has watched Oceans 12 movie has seen a hologram in action, remember Fabergé egg? Yea, that’s a true hologram.

Watch the video below to see it in action (This was the only video I could find with Fabergé egg hologram)

So, why isn’t what CNN did is a hologram and how is it different?

Professor Hans Jürgen Kreuzer, an expert on holography, said that what CNN aired wasn’t a hologram as the image that we saw of Jessica Yellin were superimposed for the viewers on TV. The reporter in the studio was still talking to an empty space and this technique is similar to the special effects technique we see in movies.

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