Take a sneak peek at the holographic RED phone
New device on sale soon at AT&T and Verizon
HOLLYWOOD – It looks like a smartphone, it acts like a smartphone, but once you see the screen on the RED Hydrogen One, you realize you’ve never seen anything like it.
Hyped as the world’s first “holographic media machine that fits in your pocket,” the new smartphone from video camera-maker RED creates images that pop out of a camera — like watching a big-screen 3-D movie — but with no glasses.
Starting this summer, AT&T and Verizon will sell RED Hydrogen One. No pricing was announced for the phone, which is on the Android platform, but company officials said to expect the cost to be about 10% higher than the iPhone X, which starts at $999.
RED, which makes high-end video cameras beloved by filmmakers, staged a sneak peek of its upcoming Hydrogen ONE smartphone over the weekend, where people got to see the technology with their own eyes.
Holding the phone, it feels a little larger and heftier than others, bigger than an iPhone 8 Plus.
When customers get their phones, they’ll be able to shoot their own photos and videos in what RED calls the 4View mode.
But it’s not holograms as we remember from the Star Wars movies. Instead, it’s an effect RED founder Jim Jannard calls 4-D, pictures that look fully dimensional and pop off the screen. In theory, that means you will be able to look around, below and even into the screen’s image.