A SportVU designer, Gal Oz said
it can look even more realistic. Hurley said the blue glow around Yellin and Will.i.am was added intentionally to avoid confusion.
“We could have had a much crisper, more realistic shot, almost to the extent where the viewer at home would have had no idea even that the person wasn’t really there,” Hurley said.
“You don’t want to have the effect where it looks so good that for every future live shot, you have people on the blogs saying, ‘Oh they’re not really there–they’re in a studio, faking the moon landing.
The Founder of SportVU, Miky Tamir is also the founder of ORAD. This is from their website on the about us page.
Orad`s mission is to realize the potential of proven and emerging electro-optical, video and real-time image processing technologies for TV broadcasting, virtual reality and sports events, enabling Orad to provide a one stop technology shop for all its customers.
They specialize in TV graphics but also fiddle with virtual reality, as seen in the pictures below
Miky Tamir is also the founder of Vumii
The events of 9/11 transformed our daily reality, challenging the security industry to make quantum leaps in developing technologies to protect against threats to life, property and nations.
Vumii, Inc. was founded to respond to those challenges
Vumii specializes in night vision and surveillance technologies
The technology is obvious cool and cutting edge, but I can’t help but say that when I first heard of it I immediately thought “this reminds me of project blue beam“. The argument is not whether blue beam is a literally reality or not, simply stating that all this new media technology and holograms and virtual reality reminds of it.
And this article by Jon Ronson
Then there’s the prophet hologram – “the projection of the image of an ancient god over an enemy capitol whose public communications have been seized and used against it in a massive psychological operation.”
November 16, 2008 at 5:42 pm |
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November 17, 2008 at 6:35 pm |
Good research. This makes me think of psy op of reading War of the Worlds on radio. I don’t think it was an accident at all. I think it was a test to see how the public would react. The author, H.G. Wells also wrote about the future of the world being under a one world government.
Think of the possibilities with this technology today. Ronald Reagan had an “abiding fascination with extraterrestrials” as many have noted and often referred to an outer space threat that would thaw all of men’s differences and unite all of mankind.
A lot of power can be gained in making people scared.