Lighting firm Signify at the moment introduced a brand new SpatialAware scene characteristic that is coming to Philips Hue lights. SpatialAware scenes consider the place of all the Hue lights in a room, utilizing an algorithm to distribute gentle in a extra pure manner.
The savannah sundown scene with SpatialAwareThe SpatialAware characteristic analyzes the format of every room within the residence with Hue lights, after which lighting scenes are tailor-made to your private house. Lighting is supposed to really feel extra immersive and dynamic than earlier than.
The savannah sundown scene with out SpatialAwareProper now, when a Scene Gallery scene is activated, the totally different colours are randomly despatched to totally different lights with out the system realizing the place these lights are positioned. SpatialAware permits coloration to be distributed extra deliberately for a extra pure look. A scene that is designed to imitate a sundown, for instance, will set lamps on one aspect of the room to heat yellow tones to imitate the setting solar, whereas lamps on the opposite aspect are set to darker shades.
SpatialAware requires the Hue Bridge Professional that got here out final yr, and it makes use of an iPhone or iPad digital camera to scan the room to determine the place every gentle is positioned. Scans might be up to date with every new gentle that is added. SpatialAware shall be accessible via the Scene Gallery, and it’s an elective setting.
At launch, SpatialAware shall be suitable with round half of the sunshine scenes obtainable within the Scene Gallery, and it has been designed primarily for nature-based scenes like lake mist, mountain breeze, and savanna sundown.
Together with SpatialAware, Signify is including help for migrating a number of Hue bridges to a single Bridge Professional in the course of the Bridge Professional setup course of, and it’s bringing Apple Residence help to the Hue Safe digital camera line.
The Hue Safe Digicam, Hue Safe video doorbell, and Hue contact sensors will work with Apple Residence sooner or later, and customers will have the ability to stream stay video in picture-in-picture mode on the Apple TV and get real-time alerts utilizing the Apple Residence app.
The Hue AI assistant has been up to date with the flexibility to create automations primarily based on pure language person requests, equivalent to “wake me up at 6:45 a.m. on daily basis besides on Saturdays,” and AI help is increasing to further languages like Dutch, German, and Spanish.
Automations for lights and equipment are additionally now listed within the Rooms and Zones they management for simpler adjustment, with choices to rearrange content material to place essentially the most used automations entrance and heart.
The brand new Hue SpatialAware characteristic is launching in spring 2026, whereas Apple Residence help is coming within the first quarter of 2026. Multi-bridge migration and AI assistant automations can be found now.