In the excitement of Obama victory, we forgot about the technology that CNN showed of on Election day.
Vivek sent me the links to CNN’s hologram video and how it was made. These are the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js6b31_p5cc&feature=related
http://gizmodo.com/5076663/how-the-cnn-holographic-interview-system-works
Quite impressive links. But this brought back memories of 1997 when we were developing Immersive Video at UCSD in Visual COmputing Lab. You can go to
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jain/ImmersiveTelepresence/
and open visualco and see the video. At the end is Frank Stanley doing Karate moves — a kind of hologram — developed using about 12 years ago in a university lab.