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 upcoming phone.
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.