RED Unveils Android Phone With Holographic Display

UPDATE (8/3): Do you doubtfulness the Red Hydrogen One is real? In an endeavor to squash those doubts, the company gave YouTube star Marques Brownlee an sectional hands on with prototypes of the handset.

In a video, Brownlee shows off a then-called "fit and finished" materials prototype, which he said is exactly what Ruddy intends the last product to look similar.

Brownlee, turning the fit and finished prototype over in his hand, says its "part rugged, role modern" aesthetic "looks kind of like a Moto Z had a baby with a tractor." The dorsum features metal and Kevlar materials, plus what looks like a red "jewel" in the middle and a large camera bump on the dorsum. There are pins at the lesser of the back side where users will be able to "snap on mods that add to the functionality of the phone," Brownlee says.

The sides feature grippy notches with a flat power button on the correct that doubles as a fingerprint reader and volume buttons on the left. The phone too features a defended video-tape button, a USB-C port, and a headphone jack. On the front, there are visible speakers above and below the handset's v.5-inch display.

Brownlee too got a look at a carve up prototype with a working holographic display. While he wasn't allowed to testify it on camera, the YouTuber says he was "pretty impressed," though it "had some quirks like light haemorrhage on the outside of the brandish."

Crimson, Brownlee says, believes this handset "can and will be the futurity of small-scale course-factor movie theater."

The company expects to have a prototype with the finished design and holographic brandish in the same trunk within 30 to 45 days, he added.

Original Story (7/vi):

Red, a company best known for making video cameras used on Hollywood moving-picture show sets, unveiled a $1,195 smartphone on Thursday that it says is the globe's first with a holographic display.

Called the Hydrogen One, information technology'southward an unlocked Android smartphone with a 5.vii-inch screen that can switch betwixt displaying conventional 2D content and what Scarlet describes as holographic "multi-view" content, from interactive games to virtual reality apps.

For professional videographers, Carmine eventually plans to integrate the Hydrogen 1 into its existing photographic camera lineup, so that it can exist used as an interface and a monitor at a shooting location in the field. The Hydrogen One volition connect to hereafter Hydrogen-uniform attachments for shooting high-quality move and still images.

Just if you just want to buy the telephone as a curiosity to display holograms, it volition come preloaded with the Red Channel interface, a selection of holographic content that includes movies and games in the .h4v file format. Scarlet Channel will too let you upload your ain .h4v files.

The audio is a footstep above what you'd await from an ordinary smartphone, likewise. The Hydrogen One's custom Android operating system includes algorithms that can translate stereo audio signals into 5.1-channel audio. "The divergence this makes would exist enough to justify the unabridged system," reads the Hydrogen One fact sail.

And you lot will demand to do a lot of justifying if you're considering a Hydrogen One as an impulse purchase. The entry-level model, with an aluminum back, will cost $ane,195. You can as well opt for a $i,595 titanium model. Both are available at present for pre-orders and expected to ship in the start quarter of 2022.

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