CNN ‘hologram’: How much did it cost?
November 8, 2008
Filed under THE WEB
“The network won’t divulge the cost of the technology, which allowed Wolf Blitzer to speak to what viewers saw as a flickering image of correspondent Jessica Yellin, who was in Chicago. (An even more weird moment came when CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed musician will.i.am from Black Eyed Peas via hologram — or was it hol.o.gram?)”
“To create the image, CNN used 40 cameras to film Yellin, a green-screen environment inside a specially constructed tent, a TV screen that allowed Yellin to see the combined image of her and Blitzer, a set of computers that made Yellin’s image camera-ready, and “a mix of mechanical and infrared camera-tracking technology to create a realistic holographic image,” according to CNN spokeswoman Erica Puntel.”
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