VIDEO: RED EXPLAINS HOW ITS MAGIC HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY WORKS!

A couple of weeks ago RED launched their Hydrogen One Smartphone idea, which is supposed to deliver features not available on any of the regular smartphones you can purchase right now. Among these features was a holographic display capable of providing a glass-fee holographic experience. 

The RED smartphone is priced at $1,200 (well above most flagship smartphones) but the Hydrogen One phone seemed sketchy even if it came from a respectable company like RED. 

A company called Leia, a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard labs, is making the screen that will power the Hydrogen phone.Users will be able to switch between holographic mode and regular smartphone display mode.

What Leia has been working on is a light field display that uses multiple layers of LCDs that have directional backlights. That’s why you get to see two different views of the same object with each eye, resulting in a 3D effect like what’s seen in the video demo here: