Official Press Release for David Bowie Tribute: please read this.

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Watching the performance closely it's clear we missed a lot.

For example, look at 1:05 of this video where it's clear the holography is encircling the stage....

There were a number of problems with trying to present this to the tv audience:

1. TV is a 2D medium

2.  Telephoto TV lenses flatten the field of view.

3. The camera crew was clueless how to shoot it and did too many close up shots that didn't give a sense of space.

So to those of us in TV land, an immersive 3d experience ended up looking like a standard background screen video.  Personally, I mostly blame CBS for apparently not even trying to give us a feel for the experience.  The cameras were never used in a way to give a sense of the effect.

 

 

 

[Psychedelic 1,098]

Yeah, after a copule of views yesterday, I realuized it must have looked much more impressive live... still I wasn't ever dissappointed!