Asus' new monitor software lets you control brightness with your voice, or just let AI do it

[Alfonso Maruccia]

AI Shovelware: Long ago, users had to press physical buttons and navigate on-screen menus to set their brand-new gaming monitors to their preferred settings. Now, Asus is proposing an AI-based solution that could do much more than simply turn the brightness level up or down.

Asus has announced a new update for its DisplayWidget Center software, adding agentic AI and other AI-based features. The tool, which is designed to manage and customize Asus monitors from within the traditional desktop environment, can now enable natural language interactions between users, IT administrators, and "compatible" AI agents for deeper personalization options.

DisplayWidget Center's new version focuses on AI-driven automation. The software is now "AI agent-ready," featuring a command-line interface based on Asus Display Control and AI Agent Skill. In fact, DisplayWidget Center's AI capabilities are essentially a GUI-based extension that allows users to access Display Control and AI Agent Skill directly from the main monitor management application.

Asus said AI agents can respond to user requests to adjust brightness, color modes, color temperature, and even Anti-Flicker settings on OLED displays. On compatible monitors, the AI can recommend optimal settings based on past usage habits or access a user's calendar to adjust color temperature levels based on the time of day.

Asus also suggests that the new DisplayWidget Center AI can perform useful tasks for IT administrators, such as deploying a common monitor configuration across an entire enterprise environment. AI agents operate entirely offline, the company said, although some resulting actions may require external services or connectivity. The updated software also includes a couple of AI-based features that do not require any agentic functionality.

With AI Visual, compatible ROG and TUF Gaming monitors can select the most suitable visual mode by analyzing on-screen content in real time. Meanwhile, the AI Assistant feature provides a new text and voice interface for adjusting settings, retrieving support documents, and accessing other help-related functionality.

Other non-AI features in the latest DisplayWidget Center release include the App Tweaker tool, which can be used to create customized display "experiences" for individual applications and games. Finally, additional OLED Care features are designed to further reduce image burn-in risks on OLED models.

Asus said the AI features included in its monitor management software can provide meaningful improvements for gamers, content creators, business users, and traditional desktop users. However, some users may feel differently or simply reject a type of software tool that is becoming increasingly invasive or raises concerns about personal privacy.

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Asus' new monitor software lets you control brightness with your voice, or just let AI do it

 

[Skully]

I would assume about 1% of people would find this remotely useful. Once I get my monitor set - that's it, I'm done. If a monitor is calibrated properly why would you ever change it? Seems like they tried to scratch an itch that wasn't there.

 

[NumberNine]

With AI Visual, compatible ROG and TUF Gaming monitors can select the most suitable visual mode by analyzing on-screen content in real time.

What if my eyeballs already know how to look at a computer monitor in real time while my fingers push buttons to change settings? All these years developing skills... WASTED!

 

[Anton Longshot]

I would assume about 1% of people would find this remotely useful. Once I get my monitor set - that's it, I'm done. If a monitor is calibrated properly why would you ever change it? Seems like they tried to scratch an itch that wasn't there.

You brutally ninja'd me but I'll type my comment anyway:
I can't recall a time when I wanted to change my monitor's brightness except when installing the thing for the first time.
Great feature hahaha I doubt even 1% would want this let alone PAY for it.
Oh wait it's AI so EVERYONE wants this - badly. LOL.
Get off the stupid pills, ASUS.

 

[p51d007]

Oh, they'll "give" this to you for a while. LOL, then it will be a SUBSCRIPTION like everything else is becoming.

 

[DrSuess]

I would assume about 1% of people would find this remotely useful. Once I get my monitor set - that's it, I'm done. If a monitor is calibrated properly why would you ever change it? Seems like they tried to scratch an itch that wasn't there.

I would if I had no arms, but otherwise no.

 

[yRaz]

Please don't make smart monitors, can we keep our monitors dumb?

 

[Axeia]

I would assume about 1% of people would find this remotely useful. Once I get my monitor set - that's it, I'm done. If a monitor is calibrated properly why would you ever change it? Seems like they tried to scratch an itch that wasn't there.

My monitor adjusts its brightness depending on the amount of light in the room, just a simple sensor though - no AI needed (more or less the same as smartphones do).
That's the one setting I'm okay with automating though, for the rest I agree. Calibrate once and stick to it.
(Or well, if you do color accurate work you're supposed to calibrate every now and then, but that doesn't apply to 99% of us)