# Touch Mode and Multiple Displays: Make Any Screen a Touchless Touchscreen

Aug 1, 2026

AirTouch runs in mouse mode by default: your hand moves a cursor and a pinch clicks. Switch it to touch mode and your gestures become genuine Windows touch events instead, single touch with one hand or multi-touch with two, so any app built for a touchscreen responds as if you were tapping the glass. Except there is no glass. This tutorial covers touch mode, multi-touch, and how to aim your hands at the right display.

New here? Start with the [install tutorial](/content/blog/install-airtouch-windows/index.html), then come back.

## Mouse mode or touch mode: which should you use?

Match the mode to the app you're controlling. Desktop software built for a cursor (browsers, slides, most clinical viewers) works best in mouse mode. Apps designed for touchscreens (kiosk software, 3D viewers with pinch-to-zoom, map interfaces, signage) come alive in touch mode, because they receive the same tap, swipe, and pinch events a touchscreen would send. One note: turning on Touch automatically turns mouse mode off, though keyboard-shortcut mappings keep working in both modes.

## How to turn on touch and multi-touch

Open Settings and find the Touch drop-down. Choose 1 Hand for single touch, or Multitouch 2 Hands for multi-touch. In multi-touch, the index-plus-thumb pinch becomes tap and swipe, and two hands together drive gestures like pinch-to-zoom and rotate. It's the closest thing to a touchscreen you can have on a screen nobody touches, which is exactly what a [touchless kiosk](/content/blog/touchless-kiosk-interface/index.html) or a museum wall needs.

## How to control a specific monitor

With more than one display connected, open Display Settings and choose the monitor where interaction should happen from the drop-down. The display numbers match what Windows shows in its own Display Settings, so there's no guessing. This is how a presenter drives the big room display while their laptop screen stays private, and how a control room aims gestures at the wall monitor rather than the desk.

## Custom crop: control part of a screen, or span several

For unusual setups, select Custom Area in Display Settings and enter values for Horizontal Offset, Vertical Offset, Crop Width, and Crop Height. That lets your hand control a defined region of one display, or a custom area spanning multiple displays, useful for video walls, ultrawide signage, and split-screen installations. Display and Camera settings are global across profiles, so the room's geometry stays put no matter which gesture profile is active.

## Where this shows up in the real world

Touch mode on a glasses-free 3D display lets a whole room manipulate a model no one is touching; that's the setup behind our [immersive display](/content/solutions/immersive/index.html) work and the [Sony Spatial Reality Display](/content/sony/index.html) integration. In a [conference room](/content/solutions/office/index.html), display targeting is what turns the wall screen into the room's shared surface while everyone stays seated.

This wraps the core AirTouch tutorial series: install, gestures, camera, advanced settings, and now touch and displays. Everything else is your imagination and a camera. [Start a free trial](/content/pricing/index.html) and turn a screen you already own into a touchless touchscreen today.