My friends told me about this hologram interview the day after it aired. I just had a chance to look it up on youtube tonight. VERY COOL, even if it isn't really holo technology!!!! At least someone is experimenting with regards to making sci-fi special effects a reality... I want a real lightsaber. ::)
TVBizWire
CNN's Holograms Not Actual Holograms CBC
The life-size holograms CNN ushered out on Election Night weren't really holograms, Canada's CBC News reports. Interviews with projected images of CNN reporter Jessica Yellin and rapper Will.I.Am didn't feature holograms because anchors Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper were speaking to empty spaces, CBC says. The images of Ms. Yellin and Will.I.Am that viewers saw at home were actually tomograms, the Web site notes. Hans Jurgen Kreuzer, a professor of theoretical physics at Dalhousie University, told CBC that the technology needed to create holograms of big objects is still a ways off.
—Christopher Perez
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/technology/65063.html?wlc=1226630821 (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/technology/65063.html?wlc=1226630821)
Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2un9AxQCQU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2un9AxQCQU)
Cool, what a great way to start.