CNN Uses Hologram People on Election Night 2008

This is absolutely amazing. I know it's not the real thing like from Star Wars or something, but the fact that CNN used hologram people in its election night coverage is very cool.

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It was already being parodied Wednesday in an online mash-up, substituting CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin's voice with Princess Leia of "Star Wars."

Yellin stepped into a booth set up in a tent at Grant Park in Chicago, surrounded by 25 high-definition cameras that duplicated her moving image in much the same way as a flight simulator would.

On screen, it appeared she was standing and talking to Wolf Blitzer on CNN's New York set, an eerie white halo around her.

...it certainly did not appear to be a distraction, as CNN's audience Tuesday was nearly double what it was for Election Night in 2004.