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French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time (reuters.com)
neutrino38 writes: The French presidential election is approaching fast. One of the candidates, Jean-Luc Melenchon, used a hologram to hold two public meetings at once. With a political program that is mostly socialist and very left leaning, some people pointed out that he used private innovation to stand out from the crowd. Reuters notes that this is "not the first politician to employ such technology," adding that "in 2014, then-Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan used a huge hologram of himself to attract wider support, while India's Narendra Modi trounced the opposition with a campaign that included holograms of his speeches in villages across the country." You can watch part of one of Melenchon's virtual meetings here.
some people pointed out that he used private innovation to stand out from the crowd.
Somebody please explain the significance of selected statement here. Does being a candidate of the Socialist Party mean that one should be coy like a little princess? Isn't that equivalent to using alien technology for a politician?
I hoped that this is technical web and the first comment will be about word 'holography' misuse. But all just arguing that some politicians use videocalls for whatever reason.
To clarify: These are not holograms. Hologram is a capture of light field in given plane. Such recording holds intensity of light (like classical photography) + Phase of the light wave. And yeah we are speking of capturing in units of nanometers per hologram element (like pixel). When reproduced, uniform coherent light (LASER apparently) is casted on that recoding you, as a wacher, have a perception of the scene behind the capture plane as if you would be there with all benefits of real life like stereoscopic vision (depth perception) and looking arround the corner when move a bit or a lot (visibility). You can even rotate your head and won't lost the stereoscopic vision, unlike in 3D cinema. If we assume full colored hologram, it is indistinguishabe from reality. For naked eye and for camera.
Those politicians are just poor bluescreen capture projected on thin cloth so the rest of the theatre scene is real. This is trick like from the beginings of cinematography just spiced by starwars popularized word [hologram] misuse.