hologram technology explained - debunked

UPDATE: SATURDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2008 VIA: http://whatreallyhappened.com

the sydney morning herald

CNN's 'holograms' just smoke and mirrors
Asher Moses
November 7, 2008 - 11:05AM

CNN's US election night stunt, in which reporter Jessica Yellin and rapper will.i.am appeared on set as three-dimensional "holograms", was little more than smoke and mirrors, physics experts say.

In what was billed as a world-first, Yellin appeared to be beamed from Chicago into the network's New York studio for an interview with anchor Wolf Blitzer. But, in fact, Blitzer was looking at little more than a red mark on the floor.

Blitzer made every attempt to hide the fact that the hologram was fake, saying "Jessica, you're a terrific hologram" and that he liked the hologram because "we can have a more intimate conversation".

Yellin likened herself to a character from Star Wars, saying, "It's like I follow in the tradition of Princess Leia."

A second "hologram" interview was aired between another anchor, Anderson Cooper, and will.i.am, who, like Yellin, was in Chicago for President-elect Barack Obama's election night celebrations.

"It looks exactly like in Star Trek when they would beam people down, that's what it looks like right here," Cooper said.

But Hans Jurgen Kreuzer, theoretical physics professor and holography expert at Dalhousie University, told CBC news in Canada that the so-called holograms were simply 2D images superimposed onto the TV broadcast.

The images were in fact tomograms, or images captured from all sides - in this case by 35 high-definition cameras set in a ring inside a special tent - reconstructed by computers and displayed on the screen.

A real hologram would have meant the images were projected into space, which did not occur as Blitzer and Cooper could not see their interview subjects.

Some have criticised the use of holograms - real or fake - in news broadcasts at all, saying the whole point of sending reporters on assignment is so the viewer can get a sense of the environment and the event they are covering.

To perform its stunt, CNN used technology from Vizrt, based in Norway, and SportVu, based in Israel.

In an interview with Norwegian publication DagensMedier, Vizrt technical director Ole Jacobsen said that, contrary to CNN's claims, "it's not technically a hologram", which would be the company's "next challenge".

Despite CNN's trickery, there have been many mainstream uses of real hologram technology, including several in Australia.

The National Sports Museum, located at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, includes a 3D hologram of Shane Warne, who tells visitors of his most memorable moments.

In May this year, Telstra's chief technology officer, Hugh Bradlow, was beamed from Melbourne to Adelaide to give a live business presentation.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/11/07/1225561097423.html
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[H3Serpent]

Hologram porn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[uppers25]

fake,america news sucks

[dentonbrowne]

@Archaebob no only the viewers see it, ppl try to make things seem so futuristic and complicated were all that was needed for this to be a hologram is greenscreen room of cameras like they had and have those cameras feed to a computer and edit out or make a background and simply project the live feed, humans are so stupid, we only use what is it? 20% of our brain? and yet we take somethin so simple and try to over complicate it

[dentonbrowne]

@lukecnat its really not that complex they just make it seem so, if the were to have cameras rotate very fast in front side and back of ur body like a scaner or like cnn say they did and have cameras all around u take video and transfer it to a cluster of lasers that emit a mutitude of colors to break up shapes and colors and contrast, its not that complicated, its like a live tv interview being shown by a projector, very easy to do, i dont no why we try make it complicated

[ryanwilliammac]

it was live, therefore there couldn't have been any editing. or maybe they are pretending it's live

[brianpackrat]

It's a Hoax. 

Not even a Pepper's ghost, just a green screen composition !

[lukecnat]

God yes we do have holographic technology. Its made of a extremely complex system of lasers that when intersecting at certain points create visual light, and when applied to camera's and movement detection you can have a touch hologram. We are still quite a long ways off before these become standard household items. Give it 30-50 years, right now the military and some very rich engineering and art/architecture firms have them.

[Archaebob]

so you wouldn't see it at all if you were actually standing in the room

[KingofDApin]

the technology is real their just trying to act like their the first in all of it...but their not

[Schiz0phrenicRabbit]

oohhhhh

so its not a free standing hologram

this disappoints me greatly

and angers me because it lead me on to believe it was

[telecalcu]

this is'n't a hologram. its video editing. really it just shows western media is full of bullshit. twisted truths and lies.

[colino9mam]

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