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Old 05-November-2008, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by sabianq View Post
how are you so absolutely, positively, 100% certainly sure that it is ????????

I will cite a source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musion_Eyeliner

your turn
Yellin specifically made mention of multiple cameras at her location and in New York, and those cameras needing to be synchronized. You link to a system that is, in your own quoted blurb, a "simple one camera / one projector illusion" and wonder how I know they're not the same thing?

Anyway, here's Gizmodo's page on the tech:
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Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the images are actually "projected" onto the floor of the CNN studio so that Wolf can actually talk to the person, you know, in a face to face. So it's not quite Star Wars just yet. Only after computers merge the video feeds together do you get a coherent hologram + person scenario
Here's another page talking about the technology:
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...the guest is composited into the master shot based a 3D track of the master studio cameras.
Trust me, this was a pretty high-tech realtime composite job, but it was just that - compositing. There was no "projection" in Wolf's studio.
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