The Top 3D Holographic Smartphone: Project

Project Of RED Holographic Smartphone

HOLLYWOOD — It looks like a smartphone, it acts like a smartphone, but once you see the screen on the RED Hydrogen One, you realize you've never seen anything like it.

Hyped as the world's first "holographic media machine that fits in your pocket," the new smartphone from video camera-maker RED creates images that pop out of a camera — like watching a big-screen 3D movie — but with no glasses.

Starting this summer, the two largest U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon will sell RED Hydrogen One. No pricing was announced for the phone, which is on the Android platform, but company officials said to expect the cost to be around 10% higher than the iPhone X, which starts at $999.

RED, the company that makes high-end video cameras (ranging from $1,000 to $50,000) beloved by filmmakers, staged a sneak peek of its upcoming Hydrogen ONE smartphone for enthusiasts and the film community over the weekend, where people got to see the technology with their very own eyes.

"The phone is for everybody who wants to change the way they view the world," RED founder Jim Jannard told USA TODAY. "We see in multi view, yet everything we watch on our phones is in 2D. We want to change that, so you get your content in multi view."

Holding the phone in ones hand is not unlike any other phone--except this one is a little larger and heftier than others, bigger than an iPhone 8 Plus. And it and has notches on the side to connect it to future modules the company hopes to sell, like the ability to connect large DSLR lenses.

The value of placing this technology in a phone, as opposed to a high-end video camera is to deliver instant feedback on the image via the 5.7 inch LCD screen and make it easier to share.

When customers get their phones, they'll be able to shoot their own photos and videos in what RED calls the 4-View mode. To watch other videos not made on the Hydrogen One--say on sites like Netflix, YouTube and others, RED is setting up what it calls the Hydrogen Network. This is a place for studios and filmmakers can have their 3D content converted to 4View.

RED threw some names out as potential partners at the event, including the Walt Disney Co. and Lionsgate.

Whether consumers (who will be able to afford the phone) will be dazzled by technology touted bas “retina-riveting” is no guarantee. It’s not like phones with 3D screens ever found an audience.

And while much of the talk was of the One being a holographic one, it's not holograms as we remember from the Star Wars movies and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Instead it's an effect Jannard calls 4D, pictures that look fully dimensional and pop off the screen.

Hydrogen One will have a 5.7-inch screen capable of displaying that 4-View content. In theory, that means you will be able to look around, below, and even into the screen’s image. Still to be answered: how many holographic movies, games, shopping and other apps will be made available at launch, and how good will that content look?

The phone comes with 128 gigabytes of internal storage, and also has a micro-SD slot for extra room.

Besides the 4D fare, the folks at RED stress that you'll be able to use the phone as a fully featured 2D phone, with access to the same Android apps available on other Android phones.

RED claims Hydrogen One is designed for "doers, makers and content creators." Using what is being referred to as a "pogo pin system" you'll also be able to stack modules onto the device to add functionality, presumably along the lines of what Motorola does on its Moto Z smartphones with Moto Mods accessories. Again no details have been supplied, but given RED's pedigree, you can imagine modules could add new camera tech in some fashion

Mathematical model

A single-frequency light wave can be modeled by a complex number, U, which represents the electric or magnetic field of the light wave. The amplitude and phase of the light are represented by the absolute value and angle of the complex number. The object and reference waves at any point in the holographic system are given by U_O and U_R. The combined beam is given by U_O + U_R. The energy of the combined beams is proportional to the square of magnitude of the combined waves as

\left|U_{\text{O}}+U_{\text{R}}\right|^{2}=U_{\text{O}}U_{\text{R}}^{*}+\left|U_{\text{R}}\right|^{2}+\left|U_{\text{O}}\right|^{2}+U_{\text{O}}^{*}U_{\text{R}}

If a photographic plate is exposed to the two beams and then developed, its transmittance, T, is proportional to the light energy that was incident on the plate and is given by

T=kU_{\text{O}}U_{\text{R}}^{*}+k\left|U_{\text{R}}\right|^{2}+k\left|U_{\text{O}}\right|^{2}+kU_{\text{O}}^{*}U_{\text{R}}

where k is a constant.

When the developed plate is illuminated by the reference beam, the light transmitted through the plate, U_H, is equal to the transmittance, T, multiplied by the reference beam amplitude, U_R, giving

U_{H}=TU_{\text{R}}=kU_{\text{O}}\left|U_{\text{R}}\right|^{2}+k\left|U_{\text{R}}\right|^{2}U_{\text{R}}+k\left|U_{\text{O}}\right|^{2}U_{\text{R}}+kU_{\text{O}}^{*}U_{\text{R}}^{2}

It can be seen that U_H has four terms, each representing a light beam emerging from the hologram. The first of these is proportional to U_O. This is the reconstructed object beam, which enables a viewer to 'see' the original object even when it is no longer present in the field of view.

The second and third beams are modified versions of the reference beam. The fourth term is the "conjugate object beam". It has the reverse curvature to the object beam itself and forms a real image of the object in the space beyond the holographic plate.

When the reference and object beams are incident on the holographic recording medium at significantly different angles, the virtual, real, and reference wavefronts all emerge at different angles, enabling the reconstructed object to be seen clearly.