A12 THE BULLETIN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021
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TODAY
FRIDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
47°
LOW
34°
A rain or snow shower;
breezy in the p.m.
Strong winds subsiding;
mostly cloudy
ALMANAC
SUNDAY
45°
26°
43°
33°
Early snow, up to 1";
mostly cloudy
MONDAY
52°
32°
44°
25°
Partly sunny and not as
cool
Times of clouds and sun
TUESDAY
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
45°
46° 73° in 1995
23°
25°
1° in 1993
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.80" in 1917
Month to date (normal)
0.43" (0.95")
Year to date (normal)
1.09" (2.48")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.44"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Fri.
Sun
6:49am/5:48pm 6:47am/5:50pm
Moon
4:01pm/6:21am 5:16pm/6:55am
Mercury 5:40am/3:38pm 5:39am/3:36pm
Venus
6:40am/5:07pm 6:39am/5:09pm
Mars
9:49am/12:47am 9:46am/12:46am
Jupiter
5:59am/3:52pm 5:56am/3:49pm
Saturn
5:37am/3:12pm 5:34am/3:09pm
Uranus 9:08am/11:04pm 9:01am/10:56pm
Full
Last
New
First
Feb 27
Mar 5
Mar 13
Mar 21
Tonight's sky: The bright star Spica of Virgo,
emerging above the ESE.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
1
1
1
0
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
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I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Cloudy with 1-3 inches
of snow this afternoon into tonight.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: Moderate to heavy
snow of 8-15 inches today into tonight.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Snow, 6-12 inches
today into tonight. More snow Friday.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Mostly cloudy with
snowfall of 2-4 inches this afternoon.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Cloudy today
with snowfall of 6-12 inches this afternoon
and tonight.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Snowfall of 3-6
inches this afternoon into tonight.
SKI REPORT
EAST: Becoming
cloudy Thursday;
snowfall of 2-4 inches
in the northeast Thurs-
day afternoon into
Thursday night.
CENTRAL: Cloudy
Thursday into
Thursday night rain
and snow likely. Snow
levels around 3,500
feet.
WEST: Rain and
areas of fog are likely
Thursday into Thurs-
day night. Periods of
rain will continue into
Friday.
NATIONAL
Hood
River
Yesterday
Today
Friday
Yesterday
Today
Friday
Yesterday
Today
Friday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
48/31/0.10 47/42/r
47/41/r
La Grande
39/25/0.01 36/34/c 36/27/sf
Portland
48/34/0.01 48/42/r
49/38/r
Baker City
40/26/0.01 34/26/sn 37/22/sf
La Pine
42/20/0.00 41/28/c 37/26/c
Prineville
43/23/0.00 48/35/c 37/34/c
Brookings
55/40/0.00 50/40/pc 50/41/r
Medford
55/29/0.00 52/37/c 49/37/r
Redmond
45/23/0.00 48/33/c 44/30/r
Burns
37/21/Tr
41/25/sf 37/23/sf
Newport
50/34/0.01 47/42/r
47/42/r
Roseburg
53/33/Tr
50/40/r
46/40/r
Eugene
50/33/Tr
49/41/r
48/40/r
North Bend
51/36/0.02 50/44/r
49/43/r
Salem
49/32/Tr
48/41/r
48/38/r
Klamath Falls
43/19/0.00 47/25/pc 42/29/c
Ontario
43/28/0.00 37/25/sn 42/24/sh
Sisters
43/23/0.00 46/36/c 42/35/r
Lakeview
37/14/Tr
41/22/pc 39/24/c
Pendleton
45/30/Tr
47/39/sn 43/33/sh
The Dalles
52/34/Tr
48/41/sh 49/37/r
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
Theft
Continued from A11
“We’ve seen a couple other states
get hit with incredibly large, sudden
waves of claims. We certainly want to
avoid that,” Gerstenfeld said.
Pressed by The Oregonian, the de-
partment acknowledged the sharp
spike in attempted identity theft from
around 900 cases in 2019 to more
than 9,000 last year. Gerstenfeld said
the rate of overpayments — money
paid to claimants who don’t deserve
it — increased from 10% in 2019 to at
least 14% in 2020.
“We think that probably under-
states the scale of the issue,” Gersten-
feld said. Many of those overpayments
were genuine mistakes, by claimants
Overcharge
Continued from A11
“I believe that the rates
should have been cut some-
thing in the order of 50-60%,”
said Robert Eglet, lead coun-
sel for the law firm Eglet
Yoga
Continued from A11
“This is a business and a
cultural activity that is about
as Oregon as things get,” said
Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corval-
lis, the bill’s chief sponsor.
Livestock already inhabit
exclusive farm zones, so they
wouldn’t create conflicts in
agricultural areas, and the
number of visitors involved
in such activities is natu-
rally self-limiting, Gelser
said. Large crowds of people
wouldn’t be attending goat
yoga classes at all hours of the
day and night, for example.
A “glitch” in existing land
use law has caused county
governments to object to
goat yoga in exclusive farm
zones because it’s not consid-
ered “equine therapy,” which
was permitted in such areas
under a bill passed in 2018,
she said.
Expanding this provision
to include livestock would
boost goat yoga, “a great vi-
sion that brought people to-
gether, helped people engage
or the employment department, but
some share of them were fraud.
Still, Gerstenfeld said Oregon be-
lieves its fraud losses are considerably
smaller, on a per capita basis, than the
losses in California and Washington.
He said those states were unlucky in
that they were hit early in the pan-
demic and that Oregon has learned
from problems elsewhere.
Arizona, California, Massachu-
setts, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island,
Washington and Wisconsin have
all disclosed estimated fraud losses
during the pandemic. Oregon and a
few other states, among them Tennes-
see and West Virginia, have said they
will not.
Michele Evermore, researcher and
policy analyst at the National Employ-
Adams, which filed the law-
suits. “These discounts that
were given, were just totally
woefully inadequate.”
His comments are similar
to those made by the Con-
sumer Federation of America
in September, which said that
ment Law Project, said the states have
legitimate concerns about disclosing
information thieves could use.
“If these fraudsters are looking
around state to state, and they see a
state with a particularly high number,
they’re going to say: ‘Oh, this is going
to be an easier one to hack,’” Evermore
said. She said thieves’ tactics are con-
stantly evolving, and they’re looking
for any advantage.
Still, Evermore said, “The public
needs to know what’s going on, too.
It’s just hard to figure out how to bal-
ance all that.”
The employment department is in
the process of adding staff as part of
an expanded fraud-detection effort,
though Gerstenfeld said that wasn’t
triggered by any recent increase in
the relief provided by insur-
ers was not enough and said
state insurance commission-
ers who regulate the industry
had failed “to prevent windfall
auto insurer profits as auto
claims dropped when driving
and auto crashes declined.”
“This is a business and a cultural activity that is about
as Oregon as things get.”
— Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, chief sponsor of Senate Bill 559
with livestock and connect
with each other,” Gelser said.
The restriction has re-
duced revenues, tourism
and employment in Oregon
farms and decreased oppor-
tunities for people suffering
from mental health prob-
lems or undergoing che-
motherapy treatments, said
Sean Scorvo, a supporter of
SB 559.
The Oregon Farm Bureau
and the farmland preserva-
tion group 1000 Friends of
Oregon draw a distinction
between the existing equine
therapy provision and the
change proposed in SB 559.
Horseback riding is al-
ready allowed in exclusive
farm zones, so the provision
approved in 2018 simply al-
lowed counseling to occur
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
67/49/0.00
Akron
53/34/Tr
Albany
45/35/Tr
Albuquerque
62/28/0.00
Anchorage
25/14/0.05
Atlanta
73/42/0.00
Atlantic City
55/36/0.00
Austin
83/63/0.00
Baltimore
63/29/0.00
Billings
35/22/0.01
Birmingham
75/40/0.00
Bismarck
40/30/Tr
Boise
43/28/Tr
Boston
50/37/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 50/37/0.00
Buffalo
53/33/Tr
Burlington, VT
43/34/0.04
Caribou, ME
41/24/Tr
Charleston, SC 75/42/0.00
Charlotte
73/32/0.00
Chattanooga
73/36/0.00
Cheyenne
34/17/0.00
Chicago
45/39/0.00
Cincinnati
64/36/0.03
Cleveland
53/35/0.00
Colorado Springs 38/26/0.01
Columbia, MO
53/41/0.00
Columbia, SC
75/33/0.00
Columbus, GA
74/38/0.00
Columbus, OH
58/28/0.07
Concord, NH
48/25/0.01
Corpus Christi
84/65/0.00
Dallas
72/55/0.00
Dayton
58/32/0.00
Denver
43/18/0.00
Des Moines
39/35/0.00
Detroit
53/34/0.00
Duluth
35/27/0.04
El Paso
76/36/0.00
Fairbanks
18/2/0.05
Fargo
29/11/0.19
Flagstaff
51/23/0.00
Grand Rapids
42/34/0.00
Green Bay
40/34/0.04
Greensboro
69/34/0.00
Harrisburg
60/28/0.02
Hartford, CT
48/31/0.00
Helena
37/22/Tr
Honolulu
81/71/0.09
Houston
81/57/0.00
Huntsville
72/36/0.00
Indianapolis
58/36/Tr
Jackson, MS
78/37/0.00
Jacksonville
78/42/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
41/36/r
37/24/pc
36/18/pc
52/29/c
30/24/pc
71/49/pc
46/35/pc
61/50/sh
51/30/pc
38/26/c
68/46/c
47/30/pc
39/28/sn
44/24/s
45/27/s
32/25/pc
32/11/sf
23/-1/c
74/52/s
67/43/pc
66/41/pc
31/19/s
39/24/pc
44/27/pc
35/25/pc
28/17/sn
45/29/pc
72/48/pc
74/54/sh
40/24/pc
38/15/s
75/65/c
55/43/r
41/23/pc
35/18/sn
40/26/s
36/21/pc
34/24/pc
74/38/s
10/4/sn
39/31/s
43/18/pc
36/23/pc
36/21/pc
60/37/pc
46/27/s
42/23/s
35/22/c
81/71/pc
69/62/sh
60/41/c
43/25/pc
68/52/c
78/51/s
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
56/41/pc
62/50/s
78/61/pc
69/43/s
97/74/pc
47/17/s
66/54/s
64/45/s
69/50/t
62/37/pc
85/73/s
85/63/pc
72/51/s
38/22/c
82/75/pc
49/37/sh
49/38/pc
63/39/s
77/63/t
74/69/c
51/39/pc
57/44/s
71/60/t
75/66/pc
57/51/r
53/36/c
60/41/c
89/75/s
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
61/48/pc
44/36/pc
36/25/s
57/30/s
32/30/sn
54/47/sh
39/39/s
65/56/c
49/38/pc
39/23/c
61/58/r
47/21/c
43/24/sf
38/31/s
41/32/s
38/32/s
32/24/s
21/8/s
62/53/sh
46/39/r
53/48/r
34/18/pc
41/35/pc
47/41/c
43/35/s
43/21/s
51/36/c
51/44/sh
66/53/sh
47/38/pc
35/16/s
76/63/pc
56/47/c
46/39/pc
42/19/pc
45/31/pc
38/31/s
37/25/c
69/39/s
20/9/c
41/17/c
50/21/s
40/32/s
40/32/pc
44/36/r
46/36/pc
40/26/s
37/21/sn
81/70/pc
77/65/sh
55/51/r
48/40/c
72/63/sh
76/56/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
36/33/0.07
46/38/0.00
46/36/0.00
73/46/0.00
65/34/0.01
41/35/0.00
71/51/0.00
75/53/0.00
68/41/Tr
40/34/0.00
67/50/0.00
80/70/0.13
43/37/0.00
38/32/0.01
75/43/0.00
74/47/0.00
54/39/0.00
54/33/0.00
70/34/0.00
58/44/0.00
39/35/0.00
81/54/0.00
85/54/0.00
47/35/0.00
56/32/0.00
81/49/0.00
63/29/0.10
47/31/0.00
53/32/0.00
72/34/0.00
39/16/Tr
43/22/0.00
68/31/0.00
54/27/Tr
67/39/0.00
58/48/0.00
39/24/0.04
78/63/0.00
68/49/0.00
71/49/0.00
72/43/0.00
54/22/0.00
77/43/0.00
46/32/0.29
41/30/0.00
37/22/0.00
60/43/0.00
77/54/0.00
79/44/0.00
61/49/0.00
60/32/0.00
53/38/0.00
49/30/0.00
81/51/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
38/27/c
46/29/pc
36/22/pc
60/39/s
44/29/pc
42/26/s
53/39/c
72/50/s
49/32/pc
38/20/s
56/41/pc
83/71/pc
39/25/s
36/26/s
55/38/c
73/61/c
45/31/s
46/29/s
50/38/pc
48/35/c
41/28/s
80/55/s
73/50/s
42/26/pc
47/30/s
70/45/s
39/23/pc
41/17/s
45/25/s
60/39/pc
42/25/pc
53/25/s
55/34/pc
33/23/sf
66/41/s
47/31/pc
39/30/s
59/53/c
70/48/s
64/46/s
67/41/s
45/24/c
77/54/s
47/40/r
43/30/s
39/26/sn
48/31/pc
79/59/s
71/39/s
54/36/c
52/34/pc
48/29/pc
52/38/c
70/42/s
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
37/31/c
48/34/pc
41/30/s
66/45/s
46/41/r
45/26/pc
50/45/r
74/51/s
51/44/c
39/32/pc
55/50/r
83/74/s
39/34/s
39/29/pc
54/50/r
77/64/c
43/35/s
43/35/s
46/43/c
51/39/c
44/27/pc
83/65/pc
79/52/s
48/36/pc
45/36/pc
73/44/pc
43/36/pc
34/23/s
42/29/s
49/40/r
42/20/pc
56/28/s
49/38/c
39/30/s
68/43/s
53/38/c
43/27/c
66/58/sh
68/47/pc
62/46/s
67/41/s
52/24/s
69/55/pc
49/36/pc
45/27/pc
40/24/sf
49/35/c
82/67/pc
71/40/s
50/39/c
50/39/pc
50/33/pc
48/27/pc
76/43/pc
83/64/0.00
79/50/0.00
37/34/0.28
9/-4/0.34
81/59/0.00
83/70/0.00
87/57/0.00
51/36/0.00
40/32/0.07
36/27/0.23
66/48/0.00
86/73/0.00
66/39/0.00
86/57/0.00
84/72/0.42
30/23/0.03
46/23/0.00
60/45/0.00
87/75/0.01
48/32/0.00
68/61/0.96
81/63/0.00
68/54/0.00
53/39/0.00
46/32/0.05
43/28/0.00
59/30/0.00
63/34/0.00
84/61/pc
77/51/s
23/6/pc
42/39/sn
81/56/pc
82/72/s
89/60/pc
56/41/pc
44/30/c
23/4/pc
61/45/pc
83/74/pc
63/44/s
84/57/s
78/66/t
27/13/sf
48/26/pc
65/50/r
90/76/t
50/36/c
79/68/t
86/62/s
67/51/t
52/43/pc
32/23/s
46/39/pc
57/37/pc
60/42/s
88/66/s
81/54/s
29/19/s
43/35/c
83/57/s
82/73/s
91/64/pc
50/39/r
45/29/pc
31/20/s
50/37/pc
81/73/t
61/45/pc
85/58/s
76/65/r
25/15/sf
58/31/pc
52/50/sh
90/76/pc
47/31/pc
79/68/pc
83/64/sh
68/54/s
53/40/c
37/28/s
47/32/s
58/41/pc
54/38/r
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 93°
at Kingsville, TX
National low: -15°
at Daniel, WY
Precipitation: 4.15"
at Pompano Beach, FL
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
8
0-70
Hoodoo Ski Area
2
0-95
Mt. Ashland
0
63-67
Mt. Bachelor
1
112-122
Mt. Hood Meadows
9
0-172
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
7
65-91
Timberline Lodge
5
0-168
Willamette Pass
0
0-80
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
0
43-60
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
65-110
Squaw Valley, CA
0
0-118
Park City Mountain, UT
0
50-60
Sun Valley, ID
0
88-107
Sunny
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
52/44
Rufus
Hermiston
45/40
52/44
48/41
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
51/41
48/41 48/42
34/32
Wasco
35/30 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
34/29
46/39
47/39
Sandy
48/41
McMinnville
47/43
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
44/39
Maupin
Government
49/42
36/34
34/28
Camp
47/38 Condon 43/39
Union
Lincoln City
43/32
35/31
35/31
Salem
49/44
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
48/41
Madras
47/33
Albany
33/29
Newport
Baker City
48/38
50/38
Mitchell
47/42
48/41
34/26
Camp Sherman
44/31
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
44/36
48/33
49/40
Day
Prineville
48/44
37/32
Ontario
Sisters
48/35
Paulina
42/30
37/25
Florence
Eugene 46/36
Bend Brothers 40/28
Vale
49/45
49/41
47/34
41/26
Sunriver
37/24
Nyssa
42/32
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
40/25
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
41/28
41/26
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
42/29
45/36
48/40
Fort
Rock
50/44
41/25
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
45/27
41/29
High: 55°
40/27
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Medford
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
50/46
50/40
44/27
37/25
Low: 14°
Marsh
Lake
45/26
Port Orford
40/23
44/26
at Lakeview
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
50/44
Pass
46/30
Chiloquin
44/26
52/40
Rome
Medford
42/28
Gold Beach
52/37
47/32
49/43
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
45/26
50/37
47/25
38/22
50/40
41/22
Seaside
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Cannon Beach
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on-site in a way that’s “inci-
dental and subordinate” to
the agricultural use, accord-
ing to submitted testimony
from the organizations.
“Here, in contrast, the un-
derlying business is yoga,”
the letter said.
The groups have urged
lawmakers against approv-
ing the bill because the pres-
ence of livestock doesn’t
render nonfarm uses “com-
patible with neighboring ag-
ricultural practices” or the
statewide goal of preserving
farmland.
“Were this bill to pass, it
is hard to imagine where the
line could be drawn between
actual farm use of farmland
and simply adding animals
to any use,” according to
their testimony.
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claims.
Oregon has paid nearly $8 billion in
jobless benefits in the 11 months since
the pandemic began last March, more
each month than it typically pays in
an entire year. An unprecedented
750,000 people have received some
class of unemployment benefit during
that time.
Without figures on the state’s actual
fraud losses, it’s impossible to know
for sure whether Oregon has indeed
performed better at preventing fraud
than it has at paying benefits. Law-
makers are divided over the depart-
ment’s refusal to say how much it has
lost.
“California and Washington have
been forthcoming with some of their
issues. I don’t know why we can’t,” said
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Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, co-
chair of the Legislature’s joint Com-
mittee on Ways and Means. “Being
transparent about the deficiencies is
not going to incentivize fraud. The
fraud already exists.”
Rep. David Gomberg, a Demo-
crat representing parts of the Oregon
Coast, repeatedly raised the issue of
unemployment fraud at legislative
hearings this month. But he said he is
sympathetic to the employment de-
partment’s position, and intends to
seek a confidential briefing to obtain
more information.
“I am frustrated but understand
their explanation,” Gomberg said.
“Again, I would like to know more but
not if it results in costs to the fund or
more fraud.”
Holograms
Continued from A11
“As you look to that hybrid
model, companies are going
to have to innovate around
that interplay between the re-
mote employee experience
and in-office employee experi-
ence,” said Lisa Walker, the vice
president of brand at Fuze, a
teleconferencing service. “The
technologies that can solve for
that are going to pop.”
Holograms might not be the
next big thing, but startups in
the 3D space are positioning
their offerings just in case.
The three-dimensional light
projections have primarily
been seen re-creating musi-
cians onstage in recent years.
Companies have wanted to
bring them into homes, but
the projection hardware is still
too expensive for most peo-
ple to afford. Companies, on
the other hand, have larger
budgets. And now software
advancements are unlocking
ways to use laptops, comput-
ers and smartphones to engage
with and stream holograms
emitted elsewhere.
In December, ARHT media
showed what a hologram-en-
abled conference could look
like as it beamed an executive
from Los Angeles to Singa-
pore to speak at an innovation
summit. The event brought
together a “small group” of at-
tendees and was broadcast live
to a larger audience online.
Traditionally, setting up
ARHT Media/Imverse
Holographic speakers from Australia, Greece and Germany stand
together on one stage.
high-definition holograms
requires a team of projection
technicians. However, ARHT’s
HoloPod was designed to be a
quick-setup, plug-and-play sys-
tem that’s simpler to deploy.
On the remote side, a pre-
senter would stand in front
of a green screen, looking at a
shot of the audience on a mon-
itor. Meanwhile, cameras cap-
ture the speaker from all an-
gles. At the worksite, someone
could roll the HoloPod out of a
closet, turn on a computer and
connect to a live stream.
ARHT’s software strings it
all together and will enable pre-
senters to respond in almost
real time. People would then see
the illusion of the presenter pro-
jected onto a reflective mesh.
In video demonstrations,
the $20,000 suite of hologram
technology lacks some clarity.
You can look at it and tell it’s
not a real person.
Still, the company enables
people to engage with life-size,
three-dimensional representa-
tions of people who aren’t actu-
ally there.
“When you see traditional
streaming services like Zoom,
it’s typically just a headshot.
You’re missing 50% of their
body language,” said Larry T.
O’Reilly, CEO of ARHT Me-
dia. “However, when you see
somebody in a live hologram,
and they appear to be 3D with-
out the need of 3D glasses,
your brain is telling you to run
the room.”