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ManoMotion uses a single smartphone camera to capture your hand gestures for virtual reality

Virtual reality makes you feel like you’re in another world. But as soon as you try to use your hands, the illusion breaks. That’s why ManoMotion has used computer vision technology to create a low-cost way to inject your hands and the gestures you make into animated scenes in real time.

The company is releasing a software development kit (SDK) today that provides developers and users with the tools to incorporate hand gestures into animated applications for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality.

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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.