HELP ME WOLF BLITZER, YR MY ONLY HOPE!

[defrog]

ITEM: About those “holograms” CNN deployed on Election Night (and for God’s sake how did we ever manage to cover elections without them?) – they weren’t real holograms, you know.

Hans Jurgen Kreuzer, theoretical physics professor and holography expert at Dalhousie University, says the so-called holograms were simply 2D images superimposed onto the TV broadcast.

The images were in fact tomograms, or images captured from all sides - in this case by 35 high-definition cameras set in a ring inside a special tent - reconstructed by computers and displayed on the screen.

A real hologram would have meant the images were projected into space.

Science: taking the fun out of cable news programs since 1980.

But in this case it’s justified, for a couple of reasons:

1. It’s a case of a news organization trying to pass off a technology as holography in an age where actual hologram technology does exist.

2. It added absolutely zero value to their election coverage, except for the ability of Ted Turner to phone up Roger Ailes and go, “Fuck you and yr glowing hockey pucks, Roger, we have fucking HOLOGRAMS! Tell Bill-O I said hi!” Which was probably the whole point.

As the kids say today, EPIC FAIL.

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Comments

[lorilori.livejournal.com]

That was stupid. If you have a reporter out in the field why would you want to remove their surroundings? Isn't that the point of having the reporter on the ground? You want to see what's going on around them.