INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Let be honest, the RED Hydrogen One is destined to be a niche product
With a &holographic display& and a $1,200 starting price point, the thing wasn&t really designed with mainstream consumers in mind
An announcement of a forthcoming camera from the company doesn&t do a lot to change that, but it does shed a bit more light on who,
precisely, the company is targeting here
In a press release, RED announced a partnership with 3D camera manufacturer Lucid for an upcoming product that will make interesting use of
The as-yet unnamed RED camera will utilize Lucid tech to create 8K, 3D video, using dual 4K cameras and a beam splitter
What most interesting, here, however, is that the camera will output that content to the Hydrogen One in real-time, essentially letting the
phone double as a viewfinder for the camera
The company assures us that, much like the Hydrogen One itself, the unnamed camera is very much a real product.
In fact, it will be
available through RED and retail partners at some point during Q4 of this year — likely months after the phone itself arrives in August
The company even showed off a preview of the product at an event last week
Pricing, like the name, is still TBD
This being RED, however, I don&t imagine it going to come cheap — even with the $1,200 viewfinder sold separately
