RED Debuts Android Smartphone That Creates 4D Holograms
Similar to RED’s other industrial-looking products, the Hydrogen RED comes in aluminum (at $1,195) or titanium (at $1,595).
The phone’s other innovation is what RED calls “4-view,” essentially the ability to “switch the 2,560 x 1,440 screen from a standard 2D to 3D,” which RED calls its “holographic” view. The Verge reviewer called it “a big step over 3D on other phones,” with better 3D depth than he saw on previous phones. The technology behind it is “more than just combining two images to make standard 3D.”
As a phone, he concluded, “most people will be better served by getting something cheaper,” although “as a hologram making and viewing machine, it’s a solid technical improvement over what I’ve seen before.” What remains to be seen is “whether anybody really needs or wants that on a phone.”
They can manually adjust the level of 3D, “but the plug-in will also automatically create a depth of field that Leia has deemed to be the most comfortable for the largest number of players.” Developers can also provide a slider so that players can adjust the 3D settings themselves.
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