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15 Years ago, CNN showed off it's first (and last) Hologram News report, with reporter Jessica Valenti appearing by "hologram" in Wolf Blitzers studio to discuss election results (m.youtube.com)
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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 months ago

I totally blocked from my memory the very brief period when holograms were a thing, and then no one ever spoke of them again. Even Tupac performed "live" via hologram iirc

Such a silly moment in time. Pretty remarkable though how accurately The Empire Strikes Back predicted holograms to look way back in 1980. Pretty much exactly how these things looked.

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure holograms existed when Star Wars was made. Probably different styles, like projected on glass panes, but I’m not sure what cnn was using.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I honestly did not know they even had such a thing! That's pretty neat.

[-] abbenm@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

I totally blocked from my memory the very brief period when holograms were a thing

Yeah, I think some corner of my brain I knew this was exactly the kind of thing that would make us go wtf after some time had passed.

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