{"id":103626,"date":"2020-03-11T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/french-presidential-candidate-melenchon-uses-hologram-optical-illusion-to-appear-in-seven-places"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:42:48","slug":"french-presidential-candidate-melenchon-uses-hologram-optical-illusion-to-appear-in-seven-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/french-presidential-candidate-melenchon-uses-hologram-optical-illusion-to-appear-in-seven-places","title":{"rendered":"French presidential candidate M\u00e9lenchon uses \u2018hologram\u2019 optical illusion to appear in seven places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_oqWpFFS8dI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the April 23rd French presidential election approaches, candidates are predictably stumping to bring voters out, but far-left candidate Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon may have the most effective strategy: using an optical illusion, he beamed \u201cholograms\u201d of himself to six cities around the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/elections\/presidentielle\/l-hologramme-de-melenchon-mode-d-emploi-18-04-2017-6864120.php\">As <em>Le Parisien <\/em>reports<\/a>, M\u00e9lenchon, who is often compared to Bernie Sanders, uses a technique <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pepper%27s_ghost\">known as Pepper\u2019s Ghost<\/a> (and not technically a hologram) to broadcast a 2-D version of himself. From Dijon, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/04\/18\/the-latest-french-centrist-promises-to-simplify-labor-law\/\">simultaneously appeared<\/a> in seven places at once yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the April 23rd French presidential election approaches, candidates are predictably stumping to bring voters out, but far-left candidate Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon may have the most effective strategy: using an optical illusion, he beamed \u201cholograms\u201d of himself to six cities around the country. As Le Parisien reports, M\u00e9lenchon, who is often compared to Bernie Sanders, uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-holograms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}