3,156 views

Watch
- Search Videos
  
  Advanced search »
- Submit a New Video
Discuss
About
- Try clicking on the various channels to see videos posted to that channel - if you're into music you can click the Music channel to get more music sifts - go on and explore! Use the "hotness" when you have opened the channel link to get videos that have gotten a lot of votes, or use "newness" to have a look at the new sifts.
  When browsing sifts you like, have a look at the Related Posts list to see other related videos, click the tags under the video title to see more sifts tagged with the same tags or have a look at other sifts from the same user in the More Posts By list. If the sifted video is in a play list, have a look at the play list to see other interesting videos the Sift users have linked together.
  Enter the Sift Lounge to chat with online sifters about anything and everything, or read interesting posts in the Sift Talk forum.
  The Top New Videos list is always full of interesting, current videos. It is always recommended that you have a look through the Top New Videos, but also have a look at these:
  - Upcoming Unsifted Videos - active video submissions that neither are published to the front page nor archived to the submitter's personal queue
- Have you seen a really funny, surprising, scary, interesting, cute or in any other way extra good quality video?
  Post and share it here - VideoSift is the best video aggregator on the Web, where we share, discuss, promote, and interact with the best videos out there on the web. Post it here, and share it with the large community of video-interested users. And - you are guaranteed to find more very good videos here already!
  Mind you, we only share videos you discover that someone else has made; if you "self link," by posting a video you have made, have posted or have interests in, you risk the ban hammer - read the posting guidelines before posting. The sift is NOT for promoting your own videos - it is for sharing videos others have made.
  Submit a Video Now »
Login

CNN Hologram Interview with Will.I.Am on Election Night 2008

submitted by lucky760

1 decade 5 years 6 months 1 week ago

On election night there were a few news channels using some very interesting augmented reality toys.

This video is a pseudo-holographic interview between CNN's Anderson Cooper and singer Will.i.am. Other less sophisticated uses were of NBC's Anne Curry walking around in a "room" of three dimensional graphs of election results and Campbell Brown looking at different angles of a large 3D display of congressional seats, etc.

The way it works is the "projected" person is at a remote location in a special tent surrounded by hi-def cameras creating a digital 3d image of the subject. The computers that control the picture for broadcast decide which angle of the 3d image should be visible and adjusts for display according, while the person in studio talks to an empty room.

This is the first time I've ever seen this technology in anything mainstream and I hope to see much more of it. It's just for show, but very cool nonetheless.