WowMouse turns your smartwatch into a gesture-based Bluetooth mouse
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6HV0J)
Using WowMouse to control a computer mouse. | Image: Doublepoint A company called Doublepoint announced a new app during CES this week called WowMouse that turns Android smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch into a gesture-based mouse for your computer. That means waving your arm around to move the mouse and pinching your fingers to click (similar to the Double Tap feature on the Apple Watch Series 9). The app is available now on the Google Play store.
WowMouse works by broadcasting the watch as a Bluetooth Human Interface Devices (HID) mouse, allowing it to work with a variety of operating systems, by just pairing it like you would any other Bluetooth mouse. According to Doublepoint's site, that includes Windows, Linux, macOS, and iPadOS. It's confirmed that it works on certain Wear OS watches,...