From PC World: Philips Hue doesn’t have any new smart lights to unveil at CES 2026, but it does have a new smart lighting feature that aims to make your existing Hue lights look better than ever.
Slated to arrive in early spring, SpatialAware is exclusive to the new and more powerful Hue Bridge Pro and it’s designed to analyze the position of the Hue lights in a room and “distribute” your light scenes across each light, thus ensuring they “work together in harmony.” Without SpatialAware, the Hue app doesn’t consider the position of your lights when it activates a light scene.
SpatialAware uses an algorithm that “intentionally” spreads colors across all the Hue lights in a room, resulting in “more immersive, dynamic, and true-to-life” lighting, according to Philips Hue. For example, when SpatialAware is applied to a Hue sunset scene, lamps on one side of the room might glow in a brighter orange to simulate the look of the setting sun while the lights on the other side might be darker.
In order for SpatialAware to work its magic, you must use the camera on your smartphone to scan the positions of all the Hue lights in a given room, with the “latest augmented reality technologies” helping to determine which lights are where. You’ll need to re-scan the room if you ever add lights to your setup, Hue says.
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