The Big Surprise for Me Yesterday?

Well, it certainly wasn't Obama's win to become the 44th president of the United States - that was in the bag weeks ago, it was just a matter of watching the probabilities play themselves out. It wasn't the high voter turnout either, or the unprecedented youth movement - that's been talked about since the nominee race!

What shocked me was CNN's news coverage with.... holograms???


What the Deuce?? I like how CNN just casually refers to it as 'Via Hologram', as if this is a regular form of communication...

Well, according to several news and tech sites, this is how the technology works:

- The correspondent being beamed across the country will have 44 cameras trained on him or her, with 20 computers in the location crunching the video feeds to produce 360-degree imaging data.
- All of this image data is sent to New York, where the images are processed by another array of computers. The computers take this processed info and meshes it with the video from Wolf's side.
- Correspondents see a 37-inch plasma where the return feed of the combined images are fed back to them, letting them see Wolf and the other CNN people.

So, 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 interviewee face to face.

Alright, so much for that then. Looks like Star Wars holograms are still in a galaxy far, far away.

Wait.... hold on a sec...