Holographic Phone Coming Out Soon, With No 3-D Glasses Needed
Jim Jannard, a man whose first business was selling motorcycle parts out of his car at motocross events, then, who built the Oakley Sunglasses company (later selling it for $2.1 billion), then, went on to build the Red 4K Camera, the camera that changed the film industry to digital from celluloid (for the most part), even forcing the hugely successful German camera company, ARRI, to develop a digital camera, (though ARRI won't admit it was the reason), has developed something new: A holographic phone that doesn't need 3-D glasses. There's a new video out of people's reaction to first seeing the phone produce the hologram. Jim Jannard only wants the reaction of people seeing the hologram shown in the video, not the hologram itself. I don't know the reason. Though it may be the holographic image might not show in a 2D video recording of it. So people's reaction may be more effective for showing what the phone can do.
1:30 video of people's reaction: https://vimeo.com/283890688
Marques Brownlee was given the prototype a year ago to do a review of it.
5:54 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzqFbwWPSk
CNET video review, covers more details: https://www.cnet.com/news/red-hydrogen-one-phone-hands-on/
DigitalTrends review: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/red-hydrogen-one-review/
PCMag review: https://www.pcmag.com/news/361536/first-look-reds-holographic-hydrogen-one-smartphone
engadget review: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/02/red-hydrogen-one-hands-on-preview/
Pre-sales were being taken at $1595.00 for the Titanium, $1295.00 for the Aluminum. Pre-sales were stopped for some reason: http://www.red.com/hydrogen
That price isn't as high as I thought it would be.
It's due out this Fall.
Photo: Red
August 14th, 2018 at 8:09 PM ^
Is it September 1st yet?
August 14th, 2018 at 10:51 PM ^
Beat Notre Dame?
August 14th, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^
Cool
August 14th, 2018 at 8:12 PM ^
Tupac gonna pop out of that thing?
August 14th, 2018 at 8:19 PM ^
That first link is the best advertisement I have ever watched.
August 15th, 2018 at 12:01 AM ^
It's certainly very Apple-y. I think they even used the same font.
August 14th, 2018 at 8:20 PM ^
i'll bite.
Why do I need holographic images on a phone?
sounds like cool technology but to what end?
EDIT: Is it a good phone? I just want decent sound quality on my calls, a solid signal, and a battery that won't die after using it for half a day.
August 15th, 2018 at 9:30 AM ^
surfing porn will never be the same...?
August 14th, 2018 at 8:22 PM ^
How about instead of a hologram phone, they make one with a great battery and last longer than 12 months before the phone turns to shit.
August 14th, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^
This is OT.
It's a cool idea. I like that someone has built something ambitious and potentially revolutionary, and because of its niche orientation and Red's relatively small scale, it's not "risky" in the way that a major product from Samsung or Apple that was stepping this far out would be.
Content, of course, will be a challenge. But good luck to them.
August 14th, 2018 at 8:39 PM ^
Skeptical how good this tech can be since Magic Leap can't do better than making a rock appear at $2k with a headset.
August 14th, 2018 at 8:45 PM ^
Holographic sounds awesome, but it makes me think Leia coming out of R2D2. This sounds and reads like glassesless 3D, which unless my memory is failing, was the main Nintendo 3DS gimmick and has been kicking around for a while. If we're actually getting full on Star Wars holograms, then hell yeah, but if it's just a 3D gimmick (a feature on the 3DS the majority of people used occasionally but mostly had turned off because it was purely a gimmick), I don't see the added value being there for this versus your current cell phone.
August 14th, 2018 at 9:07 PM ^
Are you old enough to post here?
August 14th, 2018 at 9:13 PM ^
Big deal, I saw that a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
August 14th, 2018 at 9:46 PM ^
Basically nothing is shown in the commercials of a bunch of actors overreacting in the commercials that show nothing but the back of the phone.
August 14th, 2018 at 10:19 PM ^
StraightDave tells it straight. ;)
August 14th, 2018 at 10:18 PM ^
Leith and Upatniks invented holography at U of M and ERIM
August 14th, 2018 at 11:58 PM ^
Thanks for the info Mr. Jannard.
August 15th, 2018 at 7:18 AM ^
Look, this one of those steps in the path to new technology. Sure, this may be gimmicky and everyone can dismiss this, but this is just the latest progression. Someone will take this and advance it. To what? Who knows. But it's kinda cool.