Amazon’s new Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series television sets now come with motion-reactive screensavers.
This is digital art that reacts to your physical presence in the room via built-in radar sensors.
Dual streaming for ASHA protocol hearing aids is also coming to this same TV set.
It has been less than a year since Amazon showed off its Fire TV Ambient Experience. That’s the screensaver-like feature on Fire TV that displays art, family photos, and even AI-generated images. Amazon just turned this up a notch with a new interactive feature.
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The company said in a blog post that Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series models will support motion-reactive screensavers. This is a radar-enabled feature that responds to your physical presence. The TV will animate its ambient scenes in sync with your movement. This turns simple screensavers into interactive digital art, like a school of koi fish following you around as you walk by.
This only works on Amazon’s newest Fire TV models, but it’s a cool start
The interactive art is the perfect addition to the existing Fire TV Ambient Experience, which already turns your TV into a smart display that shows reminders, calendars, weather, and artwork. Most of the more recent Fire TV models support Ambient Experience, but only the latest Omni Mini-LED Series tv sets support this new interactive art.
The radar sensors built into this new TV allow for fine-grained presence detection. It’s the same hardware that helps the TV know when no one is in the room so it can automatically shut off the screen. That same tech now powers an entirely new layer of immersion, and it’s not something we’ve seen before.
Amazon says this interactive art will show up soon in the Ambient Experience menu. It will be accessible by asking Alexa to “open ambient experience.” You can also activate it through display settings.
Source: Amazon
Also new: Dual audio support for hearing aids
There’s a new accessibility feature for this same Fire TV model coming, as well. You can enable dual audio mode if you wear hearing aids that support the Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA) protocol. This will let you play audio through both the TV speakers and connected hearing aids simultaneously, so you can actually enjoy watching a movie with a loved one.
This new option also only works on the newest Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series television. If you’re hoping for either feature on a Fire TV stick, well, you’re out of luck.
