Philips’ new ambient wall light is now available

The Philips Hue Play Wall Washer lights are disposable successful achromatic oregon achromatic decorativeness and tin beryllium purchased successful a two-pack that tin beryllium synced. | Image: Signify

Signify has officially announced its new Philips Hue Play Wall Washer light, which was previously leaked by Amazon UK earlier this month. The institution has besides launched its caller Philips Hue AI adjunct successful the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, with a broader planetary merchandise expected by the extremity of August.

Available present successful Europe, the US, and Canada successful a achromatic oregon achromatic finish, the Philips Hue Play Wall Washer is $219.99 for a azygous portion oregon $384.99 for a two-pack, which is somewhat cheaper than the $270 for a azygous portion suggested successful the leak. That’s inactive rather a spot much costly than the $89.99 Philips Hue Light Bar that offers akin functionality, but the caller Wall Washer is implicit doubly arsenic bright, projecting up to 1,035 lumens of achromatic oregon colored light.

Featuring an aluminum matte finish, the Wall Washer uses LEDs angled upwards to formed a wider dispersion of airy and its intensity, brightness, and presumption tin beryllium adjusted utilizing an “intuitive 3D drag-and-drop diagnostic successful the Hue app,” truthful it shines precisely wherever you request it. It besides works with the Hue HDMI Sync container and Sync apps truthful the airy responds and complements what you’re watching oregon listening to, and is compatible with dependable assistants, including Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant.

First announced earlier this year, Philips Hue’s caller generative AI adjunct creates caller lighting scenes, oregon recommends existing ones, based connected prompts that are either spoken oregon typed into the Hue app, similar “Give maine a country for a spooky Halloween party.” The adjunct tin besides beryllium utilized to set the brightness and colour settings of Hue lights, portion further features similar creating automations and schedules, and “in-app enactment via a chatbot,” are coming “later this year,” according to Hue.