 The newscast is also known as "FTL Newsfeed" and is delivered by a "virtual news anchor", a disembodied photorealistic human male head (played onscreen by actor Joseph McKenna) that has been processed with visual effects to accentuate the mood of the messages it conveys.Whether this news anchor is a true virtual construct that is controlled by an Artificial Intelligence or if this is a real human that is visually augmented is not revealed.However, because virtual reality and holograms play a big part of everyday life in 2142, the news anchor could indeed be a computer controlled construct.