Rico says everyone is touting the 'hologram' technology supposedly used by CNN to insert distant people into the scene with Anderson Cooper. Bogus. Sure, they're imitating the Princess Leia schtick from Star Wars, but that wasn't a hologram either. It is a 3D image, in the sense that the relative angle of the cameras match, but the person didn't magically appear in the air in front of Mr. Cooper, just in the broadcast image we all saw on our televisions. Actually, the touch-screen technology used on several channels was cooler... (And the Guardian from the UK put it down in that terribly understated English way: "...this was one of the most gleefully pointless election-night gimmicks of them all.")
05 November 2008
Technological illiteracy
Rico says everyone is touting the 'hologram' technology supposedly used by CNN to insert distant people into the scene with Anderson Cooper. Bogus. Sure, they're imitating the Princess Leia schtick from Star Wars, but that wasn't a hologram either. It is a 3D image, in the sense that the relative angle of the cameras match, but the person didn't magically appear in the air in front of Mr. Cooper, just in the broadcast image we all saw on our televisions. Actually, the touch-screen technology used on several channels was cooler... (And the Guardian from the UK put it down in that terribly understated English way: "...this was one of the most gleefully pointless election-night gimmicks of them all.")
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