RED and its mysterious holographic display

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we have a little light about RED's bizarre promise and its Hydrogen One a smartphone they claim will be a revolution thanks to its built-in technology including a holographic display. If this came from any other company many would think it was a joke or pure smoke but beware we are talking about RED the famous and respected manufacturer of movie cameras used in Hollywood so it is not just strange at all.

After an announcement that generated disbelief and all sorts of unresolved doubts, RED decided to invite some Youtubers to get to know the prototypes of this Hydrogen One. However many questions remain open and today the company has decided to release new information around the holographic screen which is undoubtedly one of the points that most appeal to this so-called smartphone.

Made by Leia

Part of the controversy that has generated this Hydrogen One has been because RED only gave a few functions and a price of between $1,195 dollars or $1,595 the latter for the titanium version which we could already reserve with deliveries scheduled for early 2018. Of course, without having seen a real device image and its performance.

Today Jim Jannard CEO of RED has announced that the Hydrogen One screen has been created with the collaboration of Leia Inc. which is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard's laboratories where they focus on the development of "holographic solutions based on light fields for mobile screens".

As they explain the Hydrogen One screen will have "directional backlighting" that will allow different angles of an image or animation to be displayed on an LCD panel. This way each eye will have a different view of the object which will change depending on the angle at which we are viewing the smartphone.

According to Leia this will be possible thanks to nanostructures placed on the LCD panel of the device which will allow holographic objects projected from the screen. According to the company, the use of this technology will not affect the energy consumption of the device and there will be the option of deactivating holographic projection which is when we will have to see the screen directly, as we do today.

In the following video, they explain part of this technology and its possibilities.

Marcus Brownlee who had the opportunity to test a prototype screen mentions that the effect is impressive however there are still problems with light leaks and some lag in games under this holographic format.

Jannard also mentions that the content generated for this Hydrogen One will be made possible by the use of four cameras that capture the various angles of the objects which will merge to create a single. h4v file (holographic 4-View) which will later have the possibility of being converted to 3D for film.

RED's plans continue along the same lines where they expect Hydrogen One to be available during the first half of 2018 and the first functional prototypes to arrive in the coming months. Meanwhile we continue with some disbelief about the possibilities of this smartphone.

RED Hydrogen Prototype Hands-On!