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3Gear is latest motion-sensing firm trying to create more accurate gesture control

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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3Gear is announcing today new technology that uses Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing camera to detect finger movements in front of a computer.

The Kinect system, which works with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console and also the PC, can detect 3D movement in a room from a few feet away. But 3Gear has created technology that recognizes your finger movement, much as Softkinetic has done with its own gesture-recognition system.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.