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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?
What was he doing, surrendering to two invaders at once?
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What are his specific big issues?
Has anyone ever seen this guy and Palpatine in the same room together?
FWIW, his name is Melenchon, not Melanchon. Is it so hard to copy/paste correctly?
You have survivor bias. An extreme candidate without such an advantage loses and is forgotten. You should also look at the /. story today about how the Brexit vote and Trump used psychometric profiles for similar "new technologies make unexpected outcomes happen".
That said, I know nothing about this candidate, and have no reason to believe (or disbelieve) he is an extremist.
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In his holographic speech, he promised to be the most transparent candidate ever!
Just kidding, he's a socialist - he promised to send guys with guns to take all your shit, unless you send it to him first.
Can we go easy on the word 'Hologram'? This is likely a pepper's ghost effect; as is 90%+ of what's being called a 'hologram' these days.
It's a neat effect, and the Reuters image reveals a great reference for the setup (particularly interesting lighting rig), but lets reserve the h word for real examples of the phenomenon.
Was Hatsune Miku there too? How about Yandere-chan? The neighbor in Hello Neighbor?
How could I have missed that? Glitch in the Matrix?
You are generally allowed to keep your personal effects and such, which is why socialism has any popularity.
Marketers seem eager to abuse and misuse establish terms for advertising purposes. First "hoverboard", now "hologram".
As best as I can tell (TFA is devoid of details), this is a glorified version of the system used at Hatsune Miku" concerts - a simple rear projection onto a glass screen. A slightly more sophisticated version uses multiple cameras surrounding the person whose image is being broadcast, and switches between them depending on where the observer camera is positioned. That creates the illusion that the observer can move around the image in 3D, but the illusion only works for the observer being tracked. Anyone else sees a 2D image which rotates depending on where the designated observer moves, not based on where they themselves move.
A true hologram is not conveyed as an image. It is conveyed as an interference pattern created by taking a Fourier transform of a 3D light field. When you take another Fourier transform of that interference pattern (e.g. shine onto it coherent light equivalent to the light that originally created the pattern), it reconstructs the original 3D light field - a hologram.
India's Narendra Modi trounced the opposition with a campaign that included holograms of his speeches in villages across the country.
He did? I thought he ran a campaign that was high on constant texting to citizens everywhere, and during the time that he was banned from the US, he used video-conferencing to attend the places he was invited to, but this is the first time I'm reading about him in a hologram image
According to the wik, "The development of the laser enabled the first practical optical holograms that recorded 3D objects to be made in 1962 by Yuri Denisyuk in the Soviet Unionand by Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks at the University of Michigan, USA." Commies and socialized public universities gave us the hologram.
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you americans should stop calling someone socialist, unless you understand what socialism is, and what the difference with communism is, and why the USSR was fascist (more examples : see trump), not communist.
It has been discovered that candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon exists only as a hologram. No traces of his life on Earth have been discovered up to now, and he exists just under the form of a computer bot that once in a while interacts with real world through holograms. Further investigations are casting doubts about the reality of other politicians in the world: the lack of connections between politics and world problems is makes a strong evidence for the case. Is the world actually managed by an algorithm ? More at 11.00.
Funny how political extremists always seem to be the first to embrace new technologies to further their agendas. Hitler for example used the latest magnetic tape recording technology of his days to appear as if he was doing live broadcast in a city while he was in another.
Yes, and Trump uses Twitter to redefine reality in a way never seen before. There's definitely a pattern going on there. OMG!! That means Trump must be a Socialist!!
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.
Yeh, yeh, we get it. Americans don't like sharing.
What are the odds that he claimed two lots of expenses?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
To an American conservative "Socialist" means all the worst parts about the USSR combined with anything they don't like. Actual socialism as practiced in Europe has nothing to do with it. They couldn't describe it even slightly accurately, because that would require genuine knowledge of the subject.
He's far left by American standards, but just regular left by French ones.
The far-left in France is occupied by communists, and those called "socialists" in France (and Europe generally) like this guy or the current president, aren't what Americans call socialists.
So to call Mélenchon a Communist is incorrect. Not only because he is not tagged so, but also for fundamental divergences.
For example : PC in France keeps promoting productivisme (producing a lot) and internationalism (free movement for workers). While Mélenchon calls extremely loudly for less & better production, and for joint-protectionism : we may exchange things, services and workers but with solidarity. Not at he expense of environment, local workers neither remote. So... see: these are not minor details. On the contrary : it makes Mélenchon's position quite different from extreme left and communists. And it makes Mélenchon's position simply socialist unlike those of PS in France.
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Socialism attempts to provide universal poverty, except for those holding the reigns of power. Granted, that's not what socialism claims to provide, but I thought you lefty's were ever-so-adept at picking out lies in advertising.
As regards medical care, there are 3 choices. You can save your own money, and have 100% of it to pay for your medical expenses. You can buy insurance, and the company will rake off at least 30%, leaving you with 70% to pay your medical expenses, averaged over the population. You can have the government replace the insurance companies, in which case the rake-off:remainder is closer to 50:50.
Health insurance is not medical care.
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> t's just flash and bling. But then again, it works for Hollywood celebrities
Flash and bling worked out pretty well for the Celebrity Apprentice too. :)
I've noticed that it's very difficult to predict how well a candidate will do once after are elected and become president or whatever. Candidates that look pretty good turn out to be ineffective leaders, candidates that seem unqualified sometimes turn out to be very effective. I hope that pattern repeats in US.
Not a hologram, It's simply projection onto a surface on the stage. Just like how Gorillaz does their live performances.
Notice how they made sure NO photos of the projection are shown....
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
You should also look at the /. story today about how the Brexit vote and Trump used psychometric profiles for similar "new technologies make unexpected outcomes happen".
Which story was that? Not sarcastic, that actually sounds interesting but I can't find it.
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