ALA ‘STAR WARS’
CNN beams up reporter from Chicago to NY
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 07:23:00 11/06/2008
Filed Under: US elections, Television, Technology (general)
NEW YORK—CNN viewers saw double on Tuesday when the cable news giant used a hologram to “beam up” a reporter from Chicago to New York for election analysis.
Like a character out of the science fiction movie “Star Wars,” veteran political anchor Wolf Blitzer used a 3D hologram system to transport correspondent Jessica Yellin into his studio.
Yellin, a little fuzzy and appearing to glow, conducted a brief discussion with Blitzer before vanishing again.
“You’re a terrific hologram,” Blitzer told the image.
Yellin explained to viewers that her body was actually still in Chicago, with 35 cameras filming her inside a special tent.
“They shoot my body at different angles and I’m told that’s what transmits my entire body image back to New York,” she said.
“It’s like I follow the tradition of Princess Leia,” she said, referring to the “Star Wars” heroine.
Underneath—for what CNN said was the first time in television history—the screen announced: “Jessica Yellin via hologram from Chicago. Live.”
They chose to unveil the technology in the midst of CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage of the historic US election on Tuesday.
AFP
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