Atmospheres

Creating an ambience to suit your mood

Flexible Atmosphere Creation

People love to create their own atmosphere in their home, setting the mood for a romantic dinner, or making a warm, cozy environment when it’s cold outside. Subtle lighting helps to make home a special, personal place.

We’re all familiar with the golden glow of traditional lighting, but in fact all colored light can enhance our mood and enrich our experience – as the latest developments in televisions, like Philips AmbiLight, clearly show. One step further, Philips amBX technology uses lighting even more dramatically to make games and home cinema movies ever more immersive and exciting.

Such lighting effects don’t need to be limited to TV, games or movies. In the ExperienceLab, Philips Research is currently developing simple lighting controls for home use. Just press a button to create any of a number of pre-set lighting environments. Static, restful effects...or dynamic ones. Whatever suits your mood, or whatever mood you’d like to create.

The next step will be to make it easy for people to personalize their lighting ambience even more, by designing and implementing their own lighting scenarios.

But lighting only appeals to one of our senses. How can we involve touch, for instance, in creating our preferred ambiences? AmBX is already showing the way, with effects, such as moving air and vibration, programmed in. Other effects can easily be added.

Soon, creating your own personal multi-sensory environment will be an everyday treat – whether it’s to create a relaxing atmosphere, or your 3D movies mind-blowingly realistic...  glasses.