It turns out I’ve been using my Hue lights all wrong

SpatialAware lets Hue know where lights are in your room, so it can apply lighting scenes more effectively.

Color-changing lights are a lot of fun, but it can be hard to figure out how to best use them in your home. Most smart lighting companies offer pre-designed scenes to help you light your space, but the lights don’t know where they are physically in your home, and the effect can get diluted. Philips Hue has a solution to this problem: SpatialAware.

SpatialAware knows your room’s layout and the placement of your Hue lights, so it can determine the best way to distribute the scene’s colors and effects across them.




It gets the data when you scan your space with your smartphone in the Hue app. Using your phone’s AR capabilities …

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