"Obama has won the election. Help us Obi-wan-kenobi, you're our only hope!"
Posted on 11/06/2008 8:08:18 AM PST by outfield
The mind reels at how news organizations might employ this technology in the future. Will we see holograms of reporters standing outside in hurricanes?
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
I had to hit the rewind button on Fox Tuesday night when they had a split screen of two anchors talking and all of a sudden a man walked across in front of both live screenshots. I thought I was seeing things at first, LOL!
"Obama has won the election. Help us Obi-wan-kenobi, you're our only hope!"
CGI is already making completely realistic people, check out the Final Fantasy movie. But it’s not the end of actors and reporters because it still takes a long time to program and render. If it ever gets to a point where it takes less than 1 hour to program and render 5 minutes worth of “acting” then actors will be gone, if it gets below half an hour reporters will be toast. But that’s a ways off, currently we’re still at days to weeks.
Just imagine what the “wrong people” could do with this technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05jgTr6beug
[Then go read some of the “miracles” antichrist perfoms in Revelation]
I didn't think much of it until the end when you realize that they've scanned her and can make her say anything and move the face in realistic ways. In 2-3 years you won't even know if the news people are real!
That’s not a real hologram, it’s a video dubbing occurring in a computer. Blitzer could not see the “projection” of the other anchor. The Star-Wars fuzzy image is just a gimmick effect of bouncing laser light off the anchor.
Far more sophisticated effects occur anytime you watch a sports event and the billboards you see out around the field are actually filled in with region specific ads.
Exactly. This is nothing more than the latest advance in virtual sets. ESPN makes fabulous use of greenscreen and virtual sets all the time. This is just an upgrade to that technology.
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...and politicians.
Ping. See post 14...
It’s always fun to check out the attention to detail on this stuff. One network (I forget which) was throwing this virtual stat board up on the field during NFL games for a while, I think they got complaints about it and it went away but I like the fact that they included a “shadow” that matched the goal post shadow angle. Nice touch.
So when "reporters" are burned at the stake, I should be there in person just to be sure.
The up side is I could throw some wood on the fire!
Eaxctly....most major sports use this and most don’t even notice/
There will soon be a day when your favorite movie “stars” are nothing more than a digital data base.
FoxNews did the same thing. At least Brit Hume chuckled at it for what it was. The return of Max Headroom.
It turns out that clothes are particularly hard to model. The ways fabrics drape, fold and wrinkle are complex and poorly understood. Add to that the play of light on and through fabric and you have a very computationally intense problem.
Hair is even worse, to get real looking hair you have to model every single hair, make sure no two hairs overlap, each hair has it's own subtly different color, reflectivity and transparency, and it varies with angle and along the length of each strand. And the play of the light interacts between the hairs and changes with every motion.
And he will make a statue talk...
I’m sorry, I’m stuck on the anti-christ theme this morning. haha
Yeah, those are the things that are going to keep actors and reporters in jobs for a long time. Even when they get the programming right it’ll still take forever to process and render.
Her reflection doesn’t show in the polished floor. Everything else does.
The reports have always been hollow...sort of like a chimera.
reports=reporters
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