Subject: CNN Hologram: A New Kind of NewTeeVee Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:03 pm
In the clip embedded here, Jessica Yellin talks about little bit about how the technology works. There are 35 HD cameras that encircle her and capture a full body image that is beamed back to CNN HQ. The cameras on Yellin are synched up with cameras at CNN to coordinate different shots, and a whole bunch of computers put everything together
How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works
As Arthur C. Clarke says, Magic. A magic made possible from technology Vizrt and SportVu with the help of forty-four HD cameras and twenty computers. Here are the details.
On the subject's side: 35 HD cameras pointed at the subject in a ring Different cameras shoot at different angles (like the matrix), to transmit the entire body image The cameras are hooked up to the cameras in home base in NY, synchronizing the angles so perspective is right The system is set up in trailers outside Obama and McCain HQ Not only is it mechanical tracking via camera communication, there's infrared as well Correspondents see a 37-inch plasma where the return feed of the combined images are fed back to them. Useful for a misplaced hair or an unseemly boogar Twenty "computers" are crunching this data in order to make it usable
The delay is either minimal, or we've gotten used to satellite delay that we don't even notice now An array of computers takes the crunched info feed from the subject's side in order to mesh it with the video from Wolf's side. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the images are actually "projected" onto the floor of the CNN studio so that Wolf can actually talk to the person, you know, in a face to face. So it's not quite Star Wars just yet. Only after computers merge the video feeds together do you get a coherent hologram + person scenario
Subject: CNN Hologram: A New Kind of NewTeeVee 
Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:03 pm