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.

Headline: DOT-COM AGAIN? BEHIND THE SCENES OF LA’S “TWIISTUP” NETWORKING PHENOMENON
Writer: Gendy Alimurung
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Published date: Oct 15, 2008

Excerpt: Macadaan’s Twiistups have the following skeleton: some showcase people, the attendees, the movers and shakers like Jordan, the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed start-up companies, the swanky venue, the libations, and then one special something — “the ‘twist’ in Twiistup” — to send it over the top. He brought in a guy to build robotic sculptures. One party featured Joseph Kosinski, director of TR2N. At another was Perez Hilton, who is rumored to make $40,000 a day on his gossip Web site. (BusinessWeek places Perez’s earnings at $110,000 a month. The $40K figure comes from what Blogads says it would cost to do a one-day advertising “takeover” of perezhilton.com.)

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