2008 United States presidential election

CNN election night coverage, November 4, 2008: the "hologram" The night studio gadgetry became the talking point. CNN beamed a 3-D image of correspondent Jessica Yellin from a tent in Chicago's Grant Park into its New York Election Center to talk with Wolf Blitzer, and later did the same with will.i.am. Behind it sat a circular green-screen set ringed by 35 small HD cameras, matched to the studio camera's movements. It was not strictly a hologram, and critics had fun with it, but it is a perfect time capsule of the graphics arms race, on the night Barack Obama won.