When New Technology Bursts into the Spotlight... | The Coffeehouse

jonathansampson
stick a scissor in you eye!

I've seen some attempts at holograms etc in the past, but it seems as though CNN has something I've not yet seen before. Did anybody else know that this product existed, or that any team private/public was working on this type of stuff? If so, what else am I missing, and when do I get my own hologram surface wall gas plasma monitor 4000?

jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

It has star wars writen all over it. right down to the little blue glow around the hologram. We see it (the hologram) on the screen but what does Wolf B. see? is he just talking to a red dot on the floor or does he actualy see the hologram in the room with him?

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I wonder if this looks the same when standing in the studio - wondering what the guy sees. Or if this is all post-processing.

I knew about the Gorillaz having performed like that once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRViE4N-u5Y - People in the audience saw them in the right angle. If you moved around the audience you would have seen them always in the right angle, as if they have been really in front of you.

Impressive stuff Smiley

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to jason818_253.33

#Nov 5th, 2008 @ 11:20 AM

I guess - guessing here from how he looks - he's not seeing her. It seems to be post-processing technology as they did it with weather landscapes. The blueish glow around the woman looks as if the different angles of her were shot in a blue box and as if these are artifacts.

If he would see her in real there would be the need of some kind of medium that displays her.

jonathansampson
stick a scissor in you eye!

In reply to littleguru

#Nov 5th, 2008 @ 11:24 AM

I've seen plenty of examples where holograms were projected onto thin panels of glass or some type of material, and the more panels you have the more angles you could view the object from - this hologram confused me because I didn't really see any panels, so I wasn't sure if, like was said earlier, this was just overlayed on the video, and those present didn't actually see her.

Ion Todirel
buuu

In reply to jonathansampson

#Nov 5th, 2008 @ 11:31 AM

yeah, AFAIK you need some sort of projection surface, be it maybe some particles in air or something

jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

In reply to jonathansampson

#Nov 5th, 2008 @ 11:31 AM

Check out second light video. about 8:00 into it is a kind of tech for projecting images into an upright position. its cool. maybe something like this could be used to project a hologram image onto a surface some day.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

The CNN hologram wasn't really a hologram. It's somebody in a studio in front of a blue screen, with cameras that have the same angles and track the same motions as the camera's in the CNN studio, so the perspective will stay the same. Then they just cut out the blue and paste it on the video from the studio. Wolf is looking at an offscreen monitor that's somewhere at the height of where the hologram's 'head' should be. Like a weatherman.