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SlideWand v1.3.6 — Wand calibration

Teach SlideWand which fingertip is the tip of your wand, and waves track
the tip instead of the palm.

New in v1.3.6

  • Calibrate Wand… (menu bar): hold your hand up like a wand, tip pointing
    up, and hold still for a couple of seconds. SlideWand learns which landmark
    is the tip (e.g. your index fingertip) and saves it — calibration survives
    restarts.
  • Tip-tracked waves: once calibrated, the motion trail, wave detection,
    and hold steadiness all run off the wand tip, so quick flicks of the tip
    drive next/previous. Without calibration the app falls back to palm tracking.
  • Tip marker on the camera preview: the calibrated tip gets a cyan
    "TIP" marker so you can see exactly what the app is following.
  • Steadiness + visibility checks: calibration refuses a shaky capture or
    one where the hand wasn't in view, and tells you to try again.
  • The gesture test window now shows wand state ("Wand: index fingertip ✓"
    or "Wand: not calibrated").

Still true

  • Native Swift (Vision + AVFoundation), everything on-device, no dependencies.
  • Mirrored preview is display-only (Core Animation transform); the app never
    touches AVCaptureConnection mirroring/rotation.
  • The self-updater uses only public github.com release/download URLs —
    no GitHub API, no keys.

Install / update

Download SlideWand-macos.zip below, unzip, and replace
/Applications/SlideWand.app. First launch: right-click → Open
(the app is ad-hoc signed, not Apple-notarized).

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