WowMouse turns your smartwatch right 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 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 function on the Apple Watch Sequence 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 every other Bluetooth mouse. In line with Doublepoint’s website, 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 could possibly’t make an app for watchOS.

You possibly can simply see this working effectively — online game controllers have completed a terrific job with movement management like this for years. And it definitely seems prefer it does in a quick Snazzy Labs video from Thursday.

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

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