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Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning (nymag.com) 156

Posted by BeauHD from the modern-day-tools dept.
Andrew Yang, the presidential candidate who supports Universal Basic Income and has attracted a devoted online following, is planning to use a 3D hologram on the campaign trail. "On Wednesday he gave the #YangGang, which is what his supporters call themselves, their first look at it," reports New York Magazine. From the report: The hologram's debut came on TMZ Live, which showed a video of Yang's hologram performing a duet alongside a hologram of his "hero," Tupac. "I was doing a demo of what a hologram would consist of in order to send the hologram of me to campaign in Iowa or other battleground states," he said.

Last month, Yang spoke about his hologram plans with Iowa newspaper, The Carroll Daily Times Herald. "We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech," Yang told the paper. "And, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live." Yang also told the paper that he plans to use hologram technology to remind voters that "it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing."
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  • Instead of the Nose he can campaign as the Yang.

  • How is he getting so much attention? (Score:3)

    by aicrules ( 819392 ) on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:27AM (#58426348)
    Someone explain that please....

    • Simple: He's promising you other people's money. (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      That gets the attention of a lot of people, especially the leftist media.

      • Welfare for billionaires (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:34AM (#58426686)

        That gets the attention of a lot of people, especially the leftist media.

        It's amazing how you people never bring up "other people's money" when billionaires get local taxpayers to pay for the sports stadiums for their professional ball teams. The taxpayer never sees any benefit for it.

        Or when they tool around in their private jets and get the benefit of taxpayer funded air traffic control and airports.

        And of course the use of the taxpayer funded interstate system that allows them to make their billions.

        But when regular people want some basic single payer healthcare, oh no! "other people's money!" Healthcare is a luxury in the USA. We have the most expensive system that is also the worst performing in the industrialized world. Why? More welfare for the billionaires. They rigged the system so that we have to do business with their ripoff insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

        You know what? If AOC, Sanders, Warren somehow got what they promised for all us, OUR standard of living would go up. Yes, you too.

        But you have been brainwashed by the conservative media (it's ALL controlled by big conservative corporate interests: yes, even MSNBC) that what they want is in your best interests.

        Nope. Wake up! You're being played for a rube.

        • Re: (Score:1, Informative)

          by Anonymous Coward

          You know what? If AOC, Sanders, Warren somehow got what they promised for all us, OUR standard of living would go up. Yes, you too.

          Yeah! Just like the 100 million citizens under Stalin, Lenin, Mao, and Kim Jong did! The standard of living was amazing under mass socialism!

          Wait, what the fuck do you mean they ALL died?!?

        • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

          by cayenne8 ( 626475 )

          You know what? If AOC, Sanders, Warren somehow got what they promised for all us, OUR standard of living would go up. Yes, you too.

          Maybe...for about all of a month of so, they the country would be on the precipice of being BROKE.

          Even if you confiscated the entirety of the 1%'s assets, you could not fund all the free stuff AOC and crew are promoting.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Targon ( 17348 )

            You must have missed that the reason the government has such a large deficit is because the wealthy keep hording their money in banks and offshore accounts and don't spend all that much compared to their income. As such, why give the wealthy tax breaks if the money doesn't go back into the economy in some way, shape, or form?

            Government spending should be seen as an investment, with education being the thing that really does provide the biggest return on investment. Health care and keeping people from ge

        • You know what? If AOC, Sanders, Warren somehow got what they promised for all us, OUR standard of living would go up. Yes, you too.

          If they got the programs they want we would all be worse off because they ignore the actual impact and cost of implementing those ideas. Sure, if magically the cost of those programs was magically taken care of maybe our standard of living would go up..maybe....still would debate that. But with the actual cost any bump up would be quickly followed by a terrible and much longer drop down. The problem people have with their ideas is that they have no basis to work in reality. THEY ARE STUPID PEOPLE MAKING

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Shotgun ( 30919 )

          That gets the attention of a lot of people, especially the leftist media.

          It's amazing how you people never bring up "other people's money" when billionaires get local taxpayers to pay for the sports stadiums for their professional ball teams.

          Umm? It's amazing that you pay so little attention. That has been a big issue for conservatives MULTIPLE times, and they complain long and loud about it.

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    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      The media is heavily biased and pushes every random leftist.

      We've been getting fluff pieces for that Pete Buttgag guy all the way in goddamn Germany.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        Yes he really knows how to fluff.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Shareblue AstroTurf. This idiot is their answer to Trump.

    • Re:How is he getting so much attention? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:22AM (#58426626)

      He doesn't want to grab women by the pussy nor places his hands on them with uncomfortable hugs and uncomfortable kisses. He's pushing for leftist ideas that as a platform represent more of what the public says they want than most other platforms even bother to discuss--honestly, 99% of people don't care about immigration except as a reaction to politicians making it an issue, yet that's the discussion of the day that's used to wedge people for votes. He's pretty calm and rational in speech, and he seems not only willing but capable of listening to views he doesn't agree with and discussing why those views should either change or otherwise are incorrect.

      Or as a lot of Democrats and Republicans would put it, he's some sort of left wing fanatical elitist and whtever you do don't look at the man behind the curtain that is our dog and pony show masquerading as political discourse. Now get back over here and be enraged and focus on the stuff we tell you that's important even though no matter the outcome it has about zero effect on your lives! The last thing we want you to do is focus on real change where failure to deliver gives good reason to fire us or for which if the legislation succeeds but the results aren't what was expected we might lose because are ideals are proven wrong!

      • ...99% of people don't care about immigration except as a reaction to politicians making it an issue...

        Tell that to those folks living on the border states that are being overrun by the ever growing influx of illegals coming across the border.

      • The problem with his leftism is that the idea that two people acting in good faith can look at the same set of facts and reach different conclusions has gone from unspoken assumption to exotic claim. People arenâ(TM)t just wrong on this or that issue: Theyâ(TM)re morally flawed. They donâ(TM)t have bad politics: Theyâ(TM)re bad people. You actually find college professors and politicians using Nazi analogies to attack people who disagree with them on mundane points of policy.

    • He's the only candidate promoting the only realistic patch on capitalism. If you want capitalism to continue supporting our population, we're gonna need UBI. Otherwise, we need something other than capitalism, or we're gonna have to kill off a whole lot of people. And the targets are gonna be you and me, since we're not part of the 1%.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by DarkOx ( 621550 )

        He's the only candidate promoting the only realistic patch on capitalism.

        Umm no UBI is about as far away from free market exchange as you can get. Also we more or less already have a means tested version of it in the form of the EIT (earned income tax credit). Given the failure of that to solve all of our problems, I think the claim that UBI somehow would requires some extraordinary evidence. You can make some no-true-scottsman arguments about EIT but the reality UBI has been tried and more or less exists now and doubling down on it isn't going to make it work any better.

        If you want capitalism to continue supporting our population, we're gonna need UBI.

        Hmm

        • You can make some no-true-scottsman arguments about EIT but the reality UBI has been tried and more or less exists now

          EITC and UBI are fundamentally different as you get UBI whether or not you earn anything.

          Hmm capitalism has proven it can support a larger population than economic system in place before it ever has.

          Agreed.

          Every single claim population bomb, chicken little sky is falling prediction has been wrong; why should this time be different?

          Every one before has been the same. This one is fundamentally different because it attacks the class of jobs that the people who've lost their jobs traditionally defected to.

          Otherwise, we need something other than capitalism, or we're gonna have to kill off a whole lot of people.

          Nope Nope and Nope. The birthrate in the most capitalistic parts of the world is already below the replacement rate.

          You don't understand the argument. If people don't have jobs, and they don't have UBI, then they're just going to be problems to be disposed of.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Shotgun ( 30919 )

      Because he is talking about something. . .ANYTHING. . . other than reparations?

  • That won't work (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Nidi62 ( 1525137 ) on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:29AM (#58426362)

    "This guy is so elitist he can't even be bothered to leave his comfy studio and come out here and speak to us in person? I'm sure as hell not voting for him."

    • "Hey's he's communicating just like Princess Leia! He must be a man of the people!".

      People think of you as elitist based on what you do. If what you do is appear to them in a hologram but then say even the poorest should get $1k/month as basic pay, that sure doesn't come off as elitist no matter how he arrives speaks to them. Pretty easily people can see that being able to talk to groups from many states in a day via a fancy FaceTime, is way less elitist than flying around the country by private jet.

      Plus

    • Re:That won't work (Score:4, Insightful)

      by MobyDisk ( 75490 ) on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:43AM (#58427020) Homepage

      Only people who have never heard of "television" would make such an argument.

    • That was the second thing I thought of.
      The first thing I thought of, was "..he's for UBI? Well that excludes him from serious consideration, he's obviously either delusional or wants to destroy the United States".

      UBI won't work. Period. Why? Look at how rich kids, who have never had to work a day in their lives, being handed everything gratis, act: entitled, spoiled, lazy ('work' would be a totally alien concept to them), despotic. Now imagine a low-rent version of that. That's what the fist generation

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Junta ( 36770 )

        I'm skeptical as well, but I don't think UBI would be 'free ride' but rather 'barely survivable when augmented by some sort of job or meager savings'.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

        UBI won't work. Period. Why? Look at how rich kids, who have never had to work a day in their lives, being handed everything gratis, act: entitled, spoiled, lazy ('work' would be a totally alien concept to them), despotic. Now imagine a low-rent version of that. That's what the fist generation raised in a world of UBI would be like. We'd ruin the country, we'd ruin entire generations of kids. Nope, nope, nope.

        No, and communism actually proves that doesn't happen. Yes, communism.

        First off, UBI provides just

        • *weary sigh* listen buddy it won't work plain and simple, basic arithmetic will show it'll bankrupt the country in the first year or two that on top of everything else I've ever said shows it just will not work I wish you people would just accept reality and more on, please?

  • And I support a chicken in every pot ...

    But anyway, how is this better than a 2D video conference? Or for that matter, just Luddite text?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I don't know, it worked quite well for Melenchon 2 years ago in France. For two weeks media were talking about his hologram instead of talking about the other candidates.
      US is a different market though.

  • "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

  • Black Mirror anyone? (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment

  • That technique is over a century old and is referred to as "Pepper's Ghost" [wikipedia.org]. It is well established technique used in illusion and other entertainment.

    A hologram is a *THREE* dimensional image, not a two-dimensional one projected onto glass.

    As you move relative to the position of a hologram, your perspective of it changes just as it would if you were to move around an actual 3-dimensional object, and even the differences between what your left eye sees and right eye sees will be different enough at close distances that your brain will tell you you are looking at something with actual depth.

    No so-called "hologram" of Tupac ever did that.

  • New policy (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Legalize whatever he is smoking. I want some.

  • Ever see a regular person try to run a powerpoint presentation? What is the success rate? I predict the hologram will never work and/or will fail constantly. It'll make for good entertainment.

  • Don't worry, he'll take care of you....

  • Holograms delivered to every state on demand for a day of town halls around the country?

    Now THAT is mass-communicatiin'!

  • Help Me Obi-Wan (Score:3, Funny)

    by Megahard ( 1053072 ) on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:50AM (#58426762)

    You're my only demographic.

  • "We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech,"

    Yeah, or you could just make a YouTube video like normal people do for your "stump speech" instead of pissing money away on pseudo-hologram bullshit. Way to demonstrate fiscal responsibility. I'm sure everyone will benefit with you leading the UBI efforts.

    Yang also told the paper that he plans to use hologram technology to remind voters that "it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing."

    Just because it's almost 2020 doesn't mean getting out there and greeting people in person is an outdated concept, but hey don't let me stop you from digging your own grave. At least you'll be livestreaming your own demise. That should be somewhat enter

  • his "hero" is a convicted rapist (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Some choice of hero you've got there. Picking Tupac Shakur, a convicted rapist as your hero. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

    • wouldn't expect much from someone who supports Universal Basic Income, that's making irresponsible able-bodied adults into parasites on my dime.

      • While mostly mentioned by left-leaning politicians you should be aware that in its simplest form it would be a move to essentially dismantle the welfare state. The idea is that UBI replaces welfare, which would be eliminating millions of public positions and wasteful burocracy, thus saving money overall. Besides, I think once the right catches on it can be used as a tool to justify poverty even more than it is now, because we will all be able to smugly know that everyone on the street is receiving this sam

  • Include things like:
    1. Holographic food
    2. Holographic housing
    3. Holographic money

    I mean, if you're going to go holographic, you need to go all in.

  • Neither one has a chance.

  • Hologram trucks a minor French invention (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Have a look at this web page. By the way I can't see what's "3D" in there. We don't need to care about "3D" or "hologram", the person shows up and the talk and convictions matter!

    https://lafranceinsoumise.fr/operation471/

  • Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning

    I was just planning to use a 3D hologram for remote jeering!

  • So Yang is launching a TV ad campaign, only, if you want to see it, you have to leave your home & go to a specific place at a specific time to watch it... & Yang might even be watching you watching the ad & then answer some questions on Skype/Facetime.

    Yeah, I'm sure it'll catch on.

  • I think he's a bold person with a very optimistic view. How he thinks he could ever be a president of the US is beyond me, but I hope he succeeds.. The biggest problem he has, is being asian.. And with the US already trying to block a lot of chinese companies (in the media) it will just make people wonder if Yang isn't a puppet for the chinese goverment (no, they don't even think about where he's actually born, he looks like one so he is one, for a lot of people).. And ofcourse I don't think a lot of democ

  • why vote for someone who don't care enough to be there in person?

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