Mouse and gamepads

The phone is the usual controller, but you can also move the cursor in the glasses with a Bluetooth mouse, with a game controller (on Android), or with your head.

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Mouse

iPhoneAndroid

1. Pair the mouse in the phone's Bluetooth settings, like any mouse.
2. Open MiruXR and connect the glasses. MiruXR finds the mouse by itself. There is nothing to turn on in MiruXR.

Android

Nothing needs to be set up.

Android: not tested with a real mouse

On iPhone, the mouse is tested with a real Bluetooth mouse. On Android, mouse support has only been tested on an emulator, not with a real mouse, and the PlayStation 5 controller's touchpad does not move the cursor. If your mouse doesn't move the cursor on Android, please tell us which mouse and phone you have, and use the phone's trackpad meanwhile.

iPhone

iOS only lets apps use a mouse through AssistiveTouch, an accessibility feature. Set it up once:

1. On the iPhone, open Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch and turn it on.
2. In the same screen, turn off Perform Touch Gestures. With it on, the mouse moves the cursor but clicks don't reach the glasses.
3. Optional: turn off Always Show Menu to hide the round AssistiveTouch button on the phone screen.

AssistiveTouch also shows its own pointer on the iPhone screen. You can ignore it: the cursor you use is the one in the glasses.

Mouse	What it does
Move	Moves the cursor in the glasses
Left click	Clicks
Hold the left button and move	Drags what is under the cursor, like a window by its bar or a widget. Over a page, it scrolls
Wheel	Scrolls the page or the Gallery under the cursor
Right click	Goes back home, to the deck
Middle click (press the wheel)	Centers the view in Spatial
Side buttons	Previous or next window, in Theater

Edge arrows: with a mouse, an arrow appears when the cursor reaches an edge of the view where there is somewhere to go. Click it: left and right switch between your windows in Theater, up enters the HUD, and down leaves it.

Speed: while a mouse is connected, the phone's Settings > Controller show Mouse sensitivity and Scroll speed.

Game controller

Android

Outside VR games, a game controller can move the MiruXR cursor too, even with the phone screen off (see Turn off phone screen in Use your phone as the controller).

This needs Android 15 or newer and the Android apps setup. A Joy-Con 2 works without them. To connect a controller, see Connect a controller.

Button	What it does
Left stick	Moves the cursor
Right stick	Scrolls
D-pad	Jumps from button to button, like on a TV. Over a page or an Android app, it moves inside it
A (the bottom button)	Clicks. Hold it and move to grab a window
B (the right button)	Back, like Back on the phone: closes a panel, goes back in a page or an app, and then home
Center button (PS, Xbox or Home)	Shows the strip. Hold it to center the view
L1 and R1	Previous or next page, on the deck or in a web page
L2 and R2	Previous or next window, in Theater

When you use an Android app in a window, the controller goes to that app, so games and apps that support controllers work as usual. Press the center button to bring the controller back to the MiruXR cursor. See Controllers in apps.

A left Joy-Con alone can't click. On iPhone, game controllers don't move the MiruXR cursor.

Point with your head

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With glasses that have head tracking, you can point by moving your head and tap the phone to click.

1. On the controller, choose Gaze at the top right.
2. The glasses show a target and Look at the target. Look at it until the countdown ends.
3. Move your head to point. Tap anywhere on the phone to click, and slide one finger up or down to scroll.

If the cursor drifts away from where you look, calibrate again: choose another pointer, then Gaze again. More about the pointers in Use your phone as the controller.