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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months 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.

[–] Willy 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 8 months ago

They come and go.

Frank Zappa, "Bobby Brown" - "A real hologram! Well, not a real hologram, but almost a real hologram."