During their election night coverage, CNN projected "holographic" images of remote interviewees into CNN's New York newsroom. CNN Senior Vice President David Bohrman reported that they have placed 44 cameras and 20 computers in each of their remote locations to capture and record three-dimensional images of the remote interviewees. The data was used to create the illusion that the interviewee is in the studio with the CNN correspondents.USA Today: Election-night news to co-star latest technology
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CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer interviewed holograms of Obama campaign representatives in Chicago and McCain representatives in Phoenix
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Televisions in the remote locations will allow interviewees to see CNN correspondents.USA Today: Election-night news to co-star latest technology
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Technology from Vizrt and SportVu premiered during the CNN live coverage on the afternoon of November 4, 2008
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Reporter Jessica Yellin was the first person to be interviewed using the holographic technology
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CNN is the first commercial television network to use holographic technology for this purposeStreem.com: CNN beams presenter live via Hologram
