A trackpad in your pocket.
Use a phone as a trackpad and keyboard for another computer. Choose the receiving device and control it from wherever you are sitting.
Explore Remote Input ↓Remote Input
Steer the cursor from your phone while it stays bounded to the remote desktop.
Move your finger across the phone. The cursor follows inside this remote desktop sample.
Keep the idea in motion.
What Remote Input makes possible.
A phone becomes a remote trackpad and keyboard.
The receiving device decides who may send input.
CrossFlow is the separate experience of moving one cursor between computer screens.
Concept preview with sample data. Platform support and release availability are not verified by this demonstration.
7 capabilities, tracked in the project.
These are recorded implementation states, not public release availability. Platform and direction support vary; public releases remain unverified.
Your phone as the input device
- Being built Phone as trackpad
A trackpad with pointer acceleration. Support depends on the controlling and receiving platforms.
- Being built Phone as keyboard, real IME
Type Chinese, emoji and autocorrect using your phone's own keyboard.
- Being built Scroll, pinch-zoom, media keys
Scroll, zoom and change volume with the gestures you already use.
- Being built Edge sliders
Slide along the phone's edge to set brightness or volume.
Safety, which is most of the design
- Being built Emergency stop
Three Escapes on the keyboard in front of you take control back instantly.
- Being built Link-loss release
A dropped link never leaves a key or a mouse button stuck down.
- Working today Two separate permissions
Granting screenshots does not grant control. They are different capabilities.
Start with the devices
you already own.
Make a little more room for what you do.
Find your way in.
Public downloads are being confirmed. Explore the workflows and development status to see what's taking shape.
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