Left Click Finger Gesture

[MartinLichtblau]

Detecting basic finger gestures for left click and right click would greatly improve actual usefulness, since then you could use it as a mouse without having to press the touch screen buttons with the other hand. I'm confident that this is technically possible to detect certain kinds of finger gestures through accelerometer data.

For example:
Left click = clap thumb and index finger together. Doesn't move arm and pointer stays in place but clapping force is certainly measurable. Plus this gesture feels natural like pinching.

Just a single left click gesture would already change a lot and be relatively easy compared to integrating and distinguishing various gestures.

It's just an idea. You know what to do. Perhaps other gestures better fit the use case, e.g. using watch as scrolling device.

[MartinLichtblau]

Many more easily distinguishable gestures are possible and when combined with different hand resting positions, detectable by gravity pull on different axis, you get 10+ gestures already.

From that perspective it has potential but I guess that battery runtime makes practical usage impossible, at least right now, since the app has to stay open and Wear OS active.

[Kzitold]

The gyros could act as an analog stick with roll, pitch, and yaw.