Philips Hue customers will quickly have the ability to create their very own AI-powered lighting scenes, the corporate introduced on Tuesday.
Philips Hue’s new generative AI lighting assistant lets customers create personalised lighting scenes primarily based occasionally, temper, or model. They’ll accomplish that by typing instructions like “Give me a scene for a backyard social gathering” into the Hue app and in addition by utilizing their voice. The assistant will then both suggest scenes from the prevailing Philips Hue gallery or create a brand new one totally. Along with creating scenes, the AI assistant can be used to regulate the settings of current lights, together with brightness ranges and coloration.
The information comes after Hueblog reported that Philips Hue was engaged on a generative AI function in October. In response to Hueblog, the “AI Playground” lets customers create lighting scenes primarily based on typed textual content like “Create a scene for a kids’s birthday celebration,” however there was no point out of voice instructions.
Philips Hue isn’t the primary to supply an AI-powered lighting assistant. Govee’s AI Lighting Bot generates comparable dynamic lighting results and in addition responds to voice prompts. In the meantime, Nanoleaf’s “Magic Scenes” function creates comparable scenes, too, however solely responds to typed brief phrases like “tropical paradise.”
Philips Hue says the AI assistant will likely be appropriate with all of its lights. The corporate hasn’t divulged particulars about its actual availability, however said it’ll begin rolling out within the first quarter of 2025.
The AI-powered lighting assistant isn’t the one piece of stories Philips Hue introduced on Tuesday. The Philips Hue Sync TV app now helps LG TVs, whereas the color-changing Philips Hue Datura ceiling mild is now out there within the US beginning at $299.99. The frameless ceiling panel provides a pair of individually controllable lights and customizable coloration results.
Philips Hue additionally introduced new sensible residence security measures, together with smoke alarm sound detection and the power to stream stay digital camera feeds to Amazon Alexa and the Google Nest Hub. Customers may also now take a look at stay digital camera views or schedule system settings straight from their units.
