8th November 2008, 12:00 AM
Seriously, have you seen this nonsense? CNN's been going on and on since election day about their new "holographic interviews". The one problem? They aren't holograms! They've yet to figure out how to get two light beams to just sort of stop in midair like that. All they did was place a bluescreen image into the scene. They already do that. The only difference was that they were able to "synch" a huge number of the images to the in-studio images to give the illusion of the image "spinning" when the camera moved. Those interviewers are talking to empty space, not a hologram actually being projected in the studio.
Seriously though, they aren't making that distinction clear at all, going on and on about how it's a "television first" and how it's holograms "just like a holodeck or princess Leia". Though they don't distinctly claim it's an image directly projected in space in front of that guy, they might as well with all that fanfair. Sure anyone can claim they have holographic technology if they REDEFINE THE WORD! I have holographic technology in the form of my gameboy! Yay! Holographic technology for everyone! Sorry, but this is lying as far as I'm concerned. And, what's the point of their cheap trick? They could easily just show them on a screen behind them, no problem. Why bother? The only reason I can figure is so that they CAN lie and say it's a hologram.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/...ml?ref=rss
Seriously though, they aren't making that distinction clear at all, going on and on about how it's a "television first" and how it's holograms "just like a holodeck or princess Leia". Though they don't distinctly claim it's an image directly projected in space in front of that guy, they might as well with all that fanfair. Sure anyone can claim they have holographic technology if they REDEFINE THE WORD! I have holographic technology in the form of my gameboy! Yay! Holographic technology for everyone! Sorry, but this is lying as far as I'm concerned. And, what's the point of their cheap trick? They could easily just show them on a screen behind them, no problem. Why bother? The only reason I can figure is so that they CAN lie and say it's a hologram.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/...ml?ref=rss
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)