Touchless Media Control from a Distance
Spatial Touch turns hand movement into a remote control for a phone screen. Instead of reaching for playback buttons or swiping through a feed, users can keep the device on a stand or nearby surface and interact from a comfortable position. Point the camera toward the user, choose a gesture style, and use repeatable movements to control media or navigation.
Tap actions can handle play and pause, move to the next video, or skip an ad, while directional drags cover fast-forwarding, rewinding, volume, scrolling, and navigation. This is useful when cooking, eating, exercising, or relaxing with a phone placed farther away. The result is less interruption during short viewing sessions and a more natural hands-free way to browse supported content.
Pinch and Finger Fold Gesture Setup
New users can begin with a visual onboarding flow that explains the touchless idea before asking them to choose how gestures should work. Spatial Touch offers a New Pinch option alongside the Classic Finger Fold style, giving people a choice between a newer pinch-based interaction and the original finger-position approach. The selection screen uses demonstration images, so the motion is easier to understand before trying it.
Both styles are designed around quick, repeatable movements rather than a dense button panel. A primary tap can control playback, while secondary taps and drags can open navigation, switch display modes, or move through comments and feeds. Adjustable gesture sensitivity helps balance responsiveness with false detections, making the setup more adaptable to different distances, lighting, postures, and phone placements.
Supported Streaming and Social Apps
Spatial Touch is aimed at places where people already spend time on a phone rather than keeping users inside a separate media library. Its supported list includes YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Coupang Play, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Tidal, with additional services depending on the plan and app version. The same gesture language can move between short videos, longer streams, social feeds, and music.
WebView mode provides another route for YouTube without Accessibility access, while supported external apps can use the broader control service. The experience is useful when a phone is positioned on a desk, stand, or counter and the user wants to keep viewing without touching the display. Service availability and playback rules still belong to each supported platform.
Pro Pointer for Hands-Free Navigation
Spatial Touch also has a deeper control layer for users who want more than basic playback. The Pro Pointer turns the gesture system into a virtual cursor for tapping and interacting with screen elements, while Pro adds more supported apps and an Always-On option. These additions help with navigation, feed browsing, and controls not covered by simple play or volume commands.
Everyday use is strongest when touching the display is awkward, such as following a recipe, eating, cleaning, or taking a break from a close-up screen. On-device processing keeps gesture recognition on the phone, and the camera is used when the service reads a hand movement. The idea stays focused: simple remote control without storing hand images.
