CLUSTER CURSOR-DESKTOP-MONITOR · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-04

Webcam gaze and gesture cursor control

This cluster consists of desktop utilities that use a webcam to move or control the mouse cursor, either by tracking gaze/head direction to switch monitors or by recognizing hand gestures for cursor and click actions. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as it only has 0 dated entries predating the index start. Traction leadership is tied between deskflick and Gesture-Mouse with 4 stars each, while Glance has 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 2
JAN 2025OCT 2026

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 1 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Glance1★16 daysliveDesktop utility that moves the mouse cursor to the monitor you are looking at using a webcam.
  2. 02Gesture-Mouse4★1 mo—hobbyDesktop utility that lets users control the mouse cursor and clicks using hand gestures from a webcam, supporting multi-monitor setups.
  3. 03eye-cursor0★11 days—hobbyDesktop utility that lets Mac users control the mouse cursor with eye movements tracked through a webcam.
  4. 04look0★1 mo—hobbymacOS app that uses the built-in webcam for gaze estimation to move the pointer and click, enabling hands-free eye control.
  5. 05HeadFocus0★19 days—hobbyDesktop app that uses a webcam to track head and eye direction and moves the mouse cursor to the monitor the user is looking at.
  6. 06tobii_eye_tracker_manager0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that manages and configures eye tracker devices.
  7. 07gaze-tracking-cpu0★unknownliveWeb app that tracks eye gaze in real time using MediaPipe, enabling hands-free cursor control and attention monitoring.