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The future is now, at least over at CNN. During tomorrow night's election, the network is planning on using three-dimensional holograms to supplement those weird touch screens they've been using. They'll project holographic images of their field correspondents stationed around the country, including Chicago, onto their set using 44 cameras and 20 computers in each location to get the image rendered correctly. Holy shit. I will pay $50 to the first CNN tech who manages to slip in a glimpse of the Death Star blueprints instead of, say, Anderson Cooper.
CNN To Use....Holograms?
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"Help me, Obama-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
Oh come on. Someone had to say it.
I imagine this will happen in or around the uncanny valley.
Maybe they'll replace their awful "anchors" with holograms of a young Walter Kronkite.
Many bothans died to bring you Wolf Blitzer.
That's why I don't watch TV anymore. The web is a better channel of information. News from CNN (Time Warner), NBC (GE), Fox (News Corp.), CBS (Viacom), Disney (ABC) or any big media corporation is not news/journalism, it's entertainment. This is a race about who will have the highest ratings, they don't care who wins. This reminds me of the way these media companies made the war in Iraq into 3d animation of a football game.