This is awesome. The female reporter that you see in the CNN newsroom here is actually miles away but appears to be standing on stage inside the room courtesy the "hologram technology" that CNN is testing for the first time.
CNN Hologram Interview - Waxy
Now just imagine if Cisco extends this hologram technology to web conferencing. In fact, the next video is from Cisco itself where John Chambers of Cisco explains (or rather demonstrates) how CNN created that holographic news presenter on the Elections night.
Cisco on CNN Hologram Technology - Sam Sethi
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/video/cnn-hologram-technology-for-web-conferencing/5219/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Wow, nice thought Amit.
So hopefully the boring conference rooms are going to be bit more interesting…
Written by TechTrends on 11.04.08
This technology would be along with the usage that is available with Cisco’s other top level product, TelePresence. They are both useful for certain situations, and include a lot of “Wow” factor, but is it going to be used by everyone? Or is it just for the very elite level of companies, and then in very rare circumstances where you have another person with the right equipmnet to use it as well.
Written by Anthony Russo on 11.04.08
From what the hologramed reporter was saying, she’s in a special tent with thirty five hi definition cameras trained on her to make up that holographic image. I don’t think we are going to see this come up in a big way any time soon:-)
Written by Cherian on 11.04.08
Are you kidding me!? What “hologram” are you people talking about? That’s an image composite. They used blue/green screen technology. Nothing new!!! People on the stage didn’t see the “hologram”. It was only seen on TV! Why do you endorse this lie!? IT WAS NOT AN HOLOGRAM. You sheeple make me sick……………………………………
Written by WHAT HOLOGRAM!? on 11.05.08
I dont think the guy is able to see her. It looks like a hologram for the viewers, but invisible to the the presenter. So unless the presenter is able to see the image we cannot use this technology for web-conferences
Written by Santhosh on 11.05.08
That’s Excellent….I hope now news channels don’t need anchors……
Written by Sankar on 11.05.08
Unfortunately, this was just image compositing with a number of workstations crunching the data from 40 HD cameras. It wasn’t actually displayed to Wolf. See here:
link
Written by Michael R on 11.05.08
WHAT HOLOGRAM!?, you made a good point there! This is a misleading post.
Written by Zia on 11.05.08
hi,
I am not sure is this a true hologram or just another star wars trick :)
But all I can say that technology is improving days after days, so hopefully this hologram fuzz will be reality.
Written by lankapo on 11.05.08
What about the 3-D Graphics out of thin like the seating chart for the HOUSE and Senate it was like on BONES. Oh i am getting misty so beautiful!!!
Written by L Martin Johnson Pratt on 11.05.08
its just augmented realty. That stuff has been around for awhile, link
Nice to see it go mainstream though.
Written by grover on 11.05.08
It’s not a hologram, and it doesn’t project images into space: link
Written by Wes on 11.05.08
I give CNN the credit for entertaining us with the computer graphics they used last night, but until people on stage can see the person they are interviewing without the need of a monitor, you really don’t have a hologram.
Written by jesus on 11.05.08
Could be correct or not, but good to think something and try for that in near future.
Written by Dutt on 11.08.08