Analysis Of The Hydrogen One
RED is taking its knowledge of high-quality cinema cameras to the smartphone industry with a new product. The Hydrogen One is RED’s bet to revolutionize the use of smartphones.
Back in 2006, when RED was founded and showed its intent on delivering high-performance digital cinema cameras with quality of 35mm film and the convenience of pure digital, many people were skeptical and some even considered it a “scam”. After a 10-years background of providing unique high-quality cinema cameras with high-usage in the film industry, many people have blindly bought RED’s newly announced smartphone.
The Hydrogen One offers the basics: a battery, an internal storage; an external micro SD card slot; a headphone jack; and a selfie and back camera. However, …show more content…
The screen displays two sets of the same image, and the lenses direct the light from the images to your eyes - each eye sees only one image. Your brain puts the images together and you interpret it as a three-dimensional image. This kind of technology does present some issues such as: dramatically lowering resolution, cannot be turned off for standard 2D content, only works in one direction (usually landscape) and requires the user to stand in a sweet spot to view it. However, RED is confident these issues are fixed with its “holographic” …show more content…
Hopefully the modular system can help obtaining a better quality from these technologies on mobile devices.
The Hydrogen One will also work as a user interface and monitor for the Scarlet, EPIC and Weapon cameras. Furthermore, RED will open a channel where all 4-view holographic content - including movies, documentaries, apps and games - is stored, ready to download or stream.
With a $1,195 price for the aluminium version, and $1,595 for the titanium one, it doesn’t seem RED is necessarily competing with other leaders in the industry - especially with all the skepticism around it, it’s hard for the average consumer to spend that money on a smartphone. Meanwhile, Jim is convinced this is the next big thing, and says full-refunds before launch are available, but “be prepared to be surprised on the upside. It only gets better the more information you
Back in 2006, when RED was founded and showed its intent on delivering high-performance digital cinema cameras with quality of 35mm film and the convenience of pure digital, many people were skeptical and some even considered it a “scam”. After a 10-years background of providing unique high-quality cinema cameras with high-usage in the film industry, many people have blindly bought RED’s newly announced smartphone.
The Hydrogen One offers the basics: a battery, an internal storage; an external micro SD card slot; a headphone jack; and a selfie and back camera. However, …show more content…
The screen displays two sets of the same image, and the lenses direct the light from the images to your eyes - each eye sees only one image. Your brain puts the images together and you interpret it as a three-dimensional image. This kind of technology does present some issues such as: dramatically lowering resolution, cannot be turned off for standard 2D content, only works in one direction (usually landscape) and requires the user to stand in a sweet spot to view it. However, RED is confident these issues are fixed with its “holographic” …show more content…
Hopefully the modular system can help obtaining a better quality from these technologies on mobile devices.
The Hydrogen One will also work as a user interface and monitor for the Scarlet, EPIC and Weapon cameras. Furthermore, RED will open a channel where all 4-view holographic content - including movies, documentaries, apps and games - is stored, ready to download or stream.
With a $1,195 price for the aluminium version, and $1,595 for the titanium one, it doesn’t seem RED is necessarily competing with other leaders in the industry - especially with all the skepticism around it, it’s hard for the average consumer to spend that money on a smartphone. Meanwhile, Jim is convinced this is the next big thing, and says full-refunds before launch are available, but “be prepared to be surprised on the upside. It only gets better the more information you