Gizmodo explains CNN's hologram trick

...so we don't have to! (In case, like some of us at the Phoenix, you were watching MSNBC - or Fox News, just to see what the other side is saying - CNN's election coverage last night included gallactic, ghostly holograms. Fellow Phlogger Carly Carioli mentioned this, below.)

How'd they do that? Apparently, it involved fourty-four HD cameras, and twenty computers. Here's the full explanation.