LinkOpensChest_wav comments on 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

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml [S] 4 points 2 years 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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