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Help Me, Anderson Cooper. You're My Only Hope!

Submitted by RED SHIRT on November 5, 2008 - 12:07am

Anyone else watching CNN's election coverage?  The anchors are occasionally breaking from the action to talk to someone in a different location.  But we don't just see the person's face on a screen ... we get a life-size holographic image projected into the studio!!!  Anyway, Anderson Cooper was just speaking to a hologram of Will.I.Am, and it was either really cool or really weird.  I haven't decided which.

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If You Missed It

Submitted by John S. Drew on November 9, 2008 - 7:44pm.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=deoOTqT-SMI

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I saw it live.  Way

Submitted by Judith Furnari (not verified) on November 10, 2008 - 10:44am.

I saw it live.  Way cool.

Yet, the US cannot get itself off its oil dependence.

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I dunno.  At first I thought

Submitted by Jay_Smith on November 8, 2008 - 2:12pm.

I dunno.  At first I thought it was a little weird to be "beaming" in a journalist, but I guess it's no more ridiculous than someone making eye contact with an image on a flat screen, pretending they are looking through a magic portal to somewhere else while the remote reporter is staring into a gray lens or into a teleprompter mirror.   Still, it's a little cheesy.  On the other hand, I can't wait until they perfect the process the technology for which the tech was originally intended:  creating 360 navigable instant replays for the NFL.  And interestingly enough, the tech wasn't inspired so much by Star Wars or Star Trek, but The Matrix.  CNN is just getting the Beta test of what is essentially a digital rotoscope.

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Missed It

Submitted by John S. Drew on November 5, 2008 - 10:33am.

I bopped around from station to station, but I've seen a few posts about it.  Most people thought it was just too weird.  We get something futuristic and we can't handle it.

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Trek-Like Hologram?

Submitted by John S. Drew on November 6, 2008 - 7:11am.

I know Star Trek likes to pride itself on the fact that many of the innovations we have today were inspired by things in the show, but I think a little movie series called Star Wars beat it to the punch with this one - http://www.trektoday.com/news/061108_01.shtml.

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