Video: The freaky deaky CNN news hologram

Am I missing some obvious utility here or isn’t this a case of CNN reinventing the wheel simply because it has the technology to do so? I can think of only one reason you’d want to switch from a standard talking-head close-up to a full-body shot, and that ain’t a reason CNN will want to acknowledge. So I ask you: Why?

While you ponder that, I’m just going to say it because all of us are thinking it: “Help me, Wolf Blitzer. You’re my only hope.”