WowMouse turns your smartwatch right into a gesture-based Bluetooth mouse

An organization known as Doublepoint introduced a brand new app throughout CES this week known as WowMouse that turns Android smartwatches just like the Samsung Galaxy Watch right into a gesture-based mouse to your laptop. Which means waving your arm round to maneuver the mouse and pinching your fingers to click on (much like the Double Faucet characteristic on the Apple Watch Collection 9). The app is out there now on the Google Play retailer.

WowMouse works by broadcasting the watch as a Bluetooth Human Interface Gadgets (HID) mouse, permitting it to work with a wide range of working programs, by simply pairing it such as you would another Bluetooth mouse. In line with Doublepoint’s web site, that features Home windows, Linux, macOS, and iPadOS. It’s confirmed that it really works on sure Put on OS watches, just like the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, 5, and 6, however the firm says faucet detection is inconsistent on the Pixel Watch. Apple Watches don’t assist Bluetooth HID, so Doublepoint writes that it may’t make an app for watchOS.

You’ll be able to simply see this working effectively — online game controllers have finished an amazing job with movement management like this for years. And it actually appears prefer it does in a quick Snazzy Labs video from Thursday.

The corporate has greater ambitions, although: The announcement pitches producers and builders on licensing its software program for doing issues like dimming a sensible mild by rotating your wrist, like on this CNET video:

That’s an excellent enjoyable, futuristic trick and I’m all for it! But it surely’s onerous to see anybody investing sources in supporting an app that solely works on a sliver of the smartwatch market.