WowMouse turns your smartwatch into a gesture-based Bluetooth mouse

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

WowMouse works by broadcasting the watch as a Bluetooth Human Interface Units (HID) mouse, permitting it to work with quite a lot of working methods, by simply pairing it such as you would another Bluetooth mouse. In response to 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 properly — online game controllers have completed an amazing job with movement management like this for years. And it actually seems prefer it does in a short 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 wise mild by rotating your wrist, like on this CNET video:

That’s a brilliant enjoyable, futuristic trick and I’m all for it! However it’s laborious to see anybody investing assets in supporting an app that solely works on a sliver of the smartwatch market.