OMG!!! CNN does hologram interviews!!!!

Okay did some searching on the net came up with this:-

CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer

Holy crap, the future is here, and I'm not talking about the next president being elected tonight. CNN's election night talking heads won't be yapping against a boring green screen. No sir, they will be 3D holograms beamed into the studio next to Wolf Blitzer, making it seem as if they are actually there. While it's not surprising that bringing this bit of sci-fi magic to the more mundane arena of guys with large heads huffing and puffing about politics and numbers is an impressive technical feat, it's kind of amazing just how much comes together to make it happen.

The dude being beamed across the country next to Wolf will have 44 cameras trained on him, with 20 computers in his location crunching the video feeds to produce 360-degree imaging data. All of that stuff is sent to New York, where the images are processed and projected by another array of cams and comps. then, plasma TVs back in Chicago and Phoenix will let the interviewees see Wolf and the other CNN people. CNN can project two different views from each city, so Wolf can be flanked by two different holograms.
 
bah, the critical piece is still cgi

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the images are actually "projected" onto the floor of the CNN studio so that Wolf can actually talk to the person, you know, in a face to face. So it's not quite Star Wars just yet. Only after computers merge the video feeds together do you get a coherent hologram + person scenario
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Its just overlaying the images and giving us the feed. They arnt projecting the image in air as you can see she is opaque, you cant see the desk behind her which in case of hologram you would at least have something.
 
Nope, its not a hologram, disappointing once you realise it... if you read magnet's gizmodo link and listen to the explanation in the youtube video... only the viewers see "near 3d" projection on their TV screens, the presenter (Wolf) is staring at a blank space... its just images overlaid, like the typical "green screen" tech in movies for many years now... the 35 cameras recording the remote interviewee are "synched" with the cameras in the studio so when the studio cameras move, the fake "hologram" image is taken from the correct camera at the remote site... dull gimmicky stuff
 
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