Philips Hue Unveils SpatialAware at CES 2026

Signify, the company behind Philips Hue smart lighting, unveiled a suite of enhancements at CES 2026 designed to make home lighting more immersive and integrated with popular smart home ecosystems. The centerpiece, Hue SpatialAware, uses a smartphone camera to map the positions of Hue lights in a room, enabling scenes that distribute colors and intensities based on their spatial arrangement for a more natural effect.

Previously, Philips Hue scenes applied colors uniformly across lights without considering their locations, which could result in uneven or disjointed moods. With SpatialAware, users scan the room via the Hue app to create a 3D map, triangulating each light's position. Devices with LiDAR, such as certain iPhones or iPad Pros, simplify the process, though standard cameras work by capturing multiple angles. Once mapped, compatible scenes adjust dynamically: for a sunset palette, warmer tones might illuminate one side of the room while cooler shadows fall on the other, mimicking natural light transitions like dawn, dusk, or landscapes such as lakes and mountains.

Signify described the technology as transformative, stating that "in a SpatialAware enhanced room, light...