Philips Hue 'SpatialAware' characteristic harmonizes all of the lights in a room

Philips Hue has launched a brand new software program characteristic referred to as SpatialAware at CES 2026 designed to make sure that all of the lights in an area are in concord with one another. Obtainable solely for the Hue Bridge Professional, it takes into consideration every gentle level in a room and tailors the colours to make sure a pure illustration. “In a sundown scene, for instance, the lights on one facet of the room emit heat yellow tones to imitate the setting solar, whereas the ceiling lights on the other facet replicate darker shades,” the corporate wrote on its weblog. The brand new characteristic is ready to launch within the spring of 2026.

To make use of the characteristic, you scan a room along with your smartphone digital camera and use augmented actuality to find out the positions of particular person lights. A sensible algorithm then ensures every gentle level is coordinated. Any lamps added after setup shall be taken into consideration. Then, you utilize SpatialAware to pick a scene like “Lake Mist” and activate the mode.

Within the instance at prime, the corporate exhibits how all of the lights in a room are “no linger combined collectively in a colourful jumble [above] however are completely coordinated. The identical applies, for instance, to the gradient colour transitions of corresponding merchandise, the place SpatialAware even takes the orientation into consideration.”

Philips Hue additionally launched a number of different options. To start out with, the corporate is including assist for migrating a number of Hue Bridges to a single Bridge Professional through the setup course of. As well as, the Hue Safe Digicam, Hue Safe video doorbell and Hue contact sensors will quickly work with Apple House. Customers can even see stay video with picture-in-picture mode on Apple TV and get real-time alerts on the Apple House app.

The Hue AI assistant has been up to date so now you can creation automations primarily based on pure language requests — for example, “wake me up at 6:45 AM every single day besides on Wednesdays.” New AI assistant languages have been added (Dutch, German and Spanish) and the Hue app will begin exhibiting automations inside the rooms and zones they’re set to regulate, so you will not want to leap round within the app as a lot. All these new options are set to reach in Q1 2026.