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by Wistar 2805 days ago
Not a sunlight but Mitsubishi's new synthetic-light "windows" appear to be pretty spectacular. I want one.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-45827812/mitsubishi-w...

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Doesn't sound like full spectrum light. I'd live to see the CRI on those things.
I did a little digging and, it appears that Mitsubishi and CoeLux have partnered on these artificial skylights and, although the CRI isn't listed, the CoeLux site says this:

"CoeLux systems combine LED lighting that reproduces sunlight spectrum, direction and brightness with optical systems and nano-structured materials that reproduce the endless distance of the sky and sun."

If it actually does reproduce the sunlight spectrum it'd have to have a very high CRI, no? Toshiba has their TRI-R LEDs claimed to be capable of 95% of the sunlight spectrum and they are rated at a CRI of Ra97. Yuji has LEDs with claimed CRI of 98, so it seems within the realm of possibility that these fake windows are very convincing.

I have a few LED lamps with CRI 95, and they produce very natural-looking light, not noticeably different from sunlight. Not really expensive even.
Wow, I want one, too!