Not quite sure why they needed to transmit Jessica Yellin’s hologram to CNN’s election center in NY but it sure looked cool. Vizrt and SportVu made this possible with the help of forty-four cameras and twenty computers.
Cameras on Jessica’s side were positioned at every angle and synched with cameras at CNN to give the 360 degree perspective. While twenty computers crunch the data, it doesn’t actually transmit the hologram in front of Wolf. Once the video feeds are merged together the TV viewers see the ‘hologram’. Either way, game on for the holographic correspondents. We’ll be installing a holodeck at Twiistup 5.
More about how this went down at Gizmodo.