Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “RED Hydrogen One hands-on”.
This is audio recording, one. How’s it going. I am in Hollywood, Los Angeles and the reason I’m here is because Red is announcing. They have announced, they are showing off a new smartphone and it’s one of the most interesting smartphones. That’S come out in a long time..
We’Re expecting it, hopefully this August and it’s gon na, have this fourview holographic screen and I’m not really sure what that means.. I’M really excited to look at it., So we’re gon na go we’re gon na hang out with the fans and we’re gon na see. What’S going on here at Red Studios, Hollywood. (, techno, music ), So this is it.
This is the Red Hydrogen One.. I can show you the back. I can show you the sides, but I can’t show you the front.. What I can do is tell you a little bit of what the experience of the front looks: like., Okay, so I’ve looked at the phone but, more importantly, I’ve looked at the display and it is actually kind of impressive..
What Red has done is they have taken? The standard two camera setup, which everybody does when they’re doing 3D and then they interpolate the stuff in between so pa, pa pa pa.. So when you are moving the phone back and forth, you can actually see it without it. Having jump and stutter like a standard.
Lenticular display, which is pretty neat.. I looked at a bunch of video loops which are pretty easy to do.. I also did a live video chat, So using the two front-facing cameras, I was able to see a holographic image of myself and a holographic image of the other person that I was chatting with. ( techno, music ). The other fascinating thing about it is that it has this modular system – and I know modular phones – they don’t always work.
Motorola’s successful Essential, not so much Project Ara a disaster, but what’s interesting about this – is the module that they wan na start with is a sensor A camera sensor that can fit lots of different kinds of lens mounts.. So if you use Canon or Leica or Nikon or whatever you’ll, be able to attach that lens to one of these modules and use your existing lenses directly with the phone. But I think, even if that fails what’s more interesting about this modular system, is that they’re gon na have it work with Red’s own ecosystem? So if you have a Red Epic or you have you know Weapon or whatever you’ll be able to plug this thing in and use it as the display and have this phone be part of it.. Now the phone itself dude, it’s huge, It’s a 5.7 inch screen, but it’s even bigger than like an iPhone 8 Plus, it’s just a gigantic phone and they wouldn’t.
Let us take a picture of the front of it because the screen the hologram, doesn’t really show on camera, but it looks good. It looks like a fine screen and the hologram thing I don’t know if it’s actually gon na take off, but it is really clever and they even did a holochat, which is fun. They could actually do the hologram thing in real time. Over a video chat, which I was pretty impressed with.
So again it’s coming out in August. We think – and it’s gon na be really expensive. It’S gon na be like 1200 bucks, for the titanium version is going to be like 1600 bucks., It’s gon na be a bunch of money.. So if you are a person that just wants a cool phone, you know get another phone, you can save a bunch of money.. This isn’t gon na be the best phone ever its gon na have a Snapdragon 835 processor. But if you are looking for something that participates in a crazy world camera ecosystem like Red has built, this could be a really fascinating phone for you. .