20 inputs. Unlimited commands. Total control.

Head Cursor

• ✓ Rebuilt the head cursor's tracking. It follows quick moves more accurately, holds up better in dim light and on lower-resolution cameras, and keeps tracking when you sit farther from the camera.
• ✓ Changed Speed so it is now measured against the size of your face. The cursor moves the same distance for the same head movement whether you sit close to the camera or farther back.
• ✓ Replaced Threshold with Still zone. The cursor stays put while your head is still, even with a noisy camera, and slow, fine movements now arrive in full at any camera frame rate instead of being partly ignored.
• ✓ Note: Existing settings carry over. Speed is matched to your face size the first time the camera sees you, and a Threshold of 0 keeps the Still zone off.

Icon and shortcuts

• + Added the FaceCommand icon to the window, the taskbar and Alt+Tab. FaceCommand now shows on the taskbar as its own app instead of under Python, and the header logo matches the facecommand.net icon.
• + Added Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts with the FaceCommand icon, created on first launch. To keep FaceCommand on the taskbar, pin the Start Menu shortcut. Running FaceCommand.bat /shortcuts recreates them.

Head Cursor

• ✓ Changed the tracking region to a small oval that tilts with your head and sits just above the nose tip by default. It always stays clear of the eyes, brows and lips, so blinks, brow raises and mouth gestures no longer nudge the cursor. A new Region slider sets its size, and the camera preview shows the oval and every point being tracked. A region you placed yourself is kept.
• ✓ Improved responsiveness: the cursor now moves as soon as each camera frame arrives, before face detection runs, so it responds with less delay.
• ✓ Improved Speed, Smooth and Accel, which have finer steps and a wider range.
• ✓ Fixed smoothing and acceleration so they now feel the same at any camera frame rate.

Gamepad

• + Added Key Switch on the Modifier tab. It turns keyboard keys, including switch interfaces that send keystrokes, into virtual gamepad buttons. Each key can Hold, Toggle or Tap its button, and the keystroke itself is blocked so other apps see only the gamepad button. Key Switch works with the camera off, and keys sent by FaceCommand or other software pass straight through.
• + Added LT and RT to the gamepad button list, everywhere a gamepad button can be chosen. They pull the trigger fully while pressed and release it when let go. Analog trigger control is still available under Gamepad Axis.

• + Added Profile Swap. Add your exported profiles to a rotation on the Settings page, then step through them with the arrows in the bottom bar or hands-free with the Swap Profile (next and previous) actions. A swap changes your bindings without restarting the camera or disconnecting the motion sensor, and can show the new profile’s name on screen.
• ✓ Tilt compensation is now automatic. Gestures are measured relative to your head, so they work at whatever angle you sit, and tilting, nodding or turning your head no longer sets them off. The Tilt Compensation slider has been removed.
• ✓ Crosstalk between gestures has been minimized.

Performance

• ✓ Fixed the frame rate collapsing while the window is minimized. FaceCommand now opts out of Windows 11 background throttling and holds 1 ms timer resolution.
• ✓ Moved input injection onto its own worker thread with load shedding, so a slow action (launching a program, sending email) can no longer stall gesture detection, and a backlog is dropped rather than replayed late.
• ✓ Moved cursor motion onto dedicated threads, so head-cursor and directional mouse movement stay smooth independently of frame delivery.
• ✓ Capped the camera preview at roughly 30 fps and repainted it separately from detection. Every delivered frame still runs the trigger path; only the picture yields.
• ✓ Smoothed landmarks with a One Euro filter. The live readings, mouse-remap and chain-progress scans now rebuild only when something actually changes, cutting per-frame work.

Stability

• ✓ Fixed unhandled exceptions disappearing with the window. Exceptions on any thread are now written to a crash file and shown in a dialog, and a single-instance guard keeps two copies from fighting over the camera.
• ✓ Tracked every injected key, mouse button and gamepad button and released them on exit, on disable and on error, so nothing can be left held down.
• ✓ Added camera self-recovery. The camera reopens itself (up to four attempts) after a dropout, and capture faults are reported once with repeats folded in rather than flooding the log.
• + Added an in-app Debug Log capturing launch, camera and Bluetooth diagnostics, with Copy and Clear buttons and a rotating file mirror so a long session’s earliest lines survive.
• + Added warnings when FaceCommand is launched outside the bundled interpreter or without administrator rights, the two conditions that silently disable features.

Interface

• ✓ Reorganized the app into a tabbed workspace (Gestures, Chains, Point Tracker, Head Cursor, Dwell Click, Modifier, Motion, Buttons, plus Logs and Settings), so no module needs scrolling to reach. Each tab carries its module’s color and lights a dot while that module is running.
• ✓ Kept a module’s settings on screen when it is switched off, dimmed rather than hidden, so they can be read before deciding to turn it on.
• + Added a sidebar cursor readout showing which pointing module is live, the cursor position and dwell progress. Live readings are filtered to enabled gestures, the last action is pinned, and the full history and diagnostics moved to the Logs tab.
• ✓ Collapsed zoom and pan and the camera settings into two buttons, freeing most of the sidebar.
• + Added a text size control in the header (9–24 px), saved with the profile.
• ✓ Enlarged sliders, step buttons and control labels throughout.
• ✓ Moved Dwell Click’s hands-free ring to a panel of its own. The Dwell Click tab is now a second dwell target charging the same timer.

Experimental

• + Added initial support for the MbientLab MetaMotionS+ motion sensor over Bluetooth LE. Worn on a hat brim or headband, it adds six head-motion gestures (nod up and down, turn left and right, tilt left and right) plus the board’s own button, each with a full action card, running alongside the camera gestures rather than replacing them.
• + Added per-axis learning from a short sweep, so mounting orientation does not matter, and axes can be flipped or re-centered at any time. Battery level, haptic feedback and a connection watchdog are included.
• ! Still experimental: it needs the optional bleak library, supports one device, and auto-connect at launch is deliberately disabled while a mid-session dropout is investigated. The last device is remembered, so reconnecting is a single Connect click.

• ✓ Fixed face tracking dropping in and out at steep head angles (for example, looking down toward an on-screen keyboard near the bottom of the screen, where partly closed eyes were misread as a lost face). The landmarker now runs in video tracking mode instead of detecting each frame independently, so brief eye occlusion or off-axis poses no longer cause flicker.
• ✓ Made all readings noticeably steadier and more accurate, since landmarks now refine from the previous frame rather than being re-solved cold each frame.

• + Added Buttons Overlay. When enabled it shows always-on-top, clickable buttons on top of other applications, each emitting a keyboard key (selected by pressing it, including F13–F24) or a gamepad button (selected from a dropdown). Output is hold capable: a quick click taps, and holding the click holds the key or button down until release. Each button is repositioned by pressing and holding its bottom-right grip for one second, then dragging and releasing. The module has size and opacity sliders, and every button's position is saved per profile. The overlay windows are clickable but non-activating, so they never steal focus from the app underneath and the synthesized input lands wherever the user is pointing.
• + Added Modifier module. While the configured Modifier source (a gesture, a keyboard key or chord, or a mouse button including X1 and X2) is held, each Alter row substitutes a different trigger action for its chosen target. Targets cover every gesture, every point tracker axis output, and the physical mouse buttons (left, right, middle, X1, and X2).

• + Added F13–F24 keys as bindable key outputs (selectable from a dropdown in the key field, since these keys have no physical equivalent to press)
• + Added a dwell-to-enable target on the Dwell Click card (hold the cursor on the ring beside the enable toggle for 1.5 seconds to turn dwell clicking on or off hands-free)
• + Added a Wait for Timeout option to gesture chains (defers firing until the step timeout elapses, then fires the longest completed chain, so a longer chain such as brow raise plus right smirk plus right smirk can override a shorter prefix chain such as brow raise plus right smirk without the shorter one firing first)
• ✓ Fixed the head cursor replaying buffered motion after the window was minimized or lost focus
• ✓ Fixed a window hang when a hold-mode click was held on the FaceCommand window itself
• ✓ Fixed head cursor latency by always tracking the most recent camera frame

• + Added Toggle Dwell Click trigger action (turn the Dwell Click module on or off from any gesture, gesture chain, or morse pattern)
• ✓ UI improvements

• + Added Alt+Tab trigger
• + Added Head Cursor module (independent head-motion cursor control with a Set Tracking Region box)
• + Added Dwell Click module (left, right, double, middle click; dwell-time and move-tolerance sliders)
• + Added Mouse Left/Right/Up/Down trigger actions with a cursor move-speed slider
• + Added Weight slider to the gamepad axis and Point Tracker axis panels (nonlinear response shaping)
• + Added Task Manager trigger action

• + Added in-app updates functionality
• + Added email sending as a trigger action
• + Added Alt+Tab trigger
• ✓ Fixed webcam list display