Microsoft Research shows off Handpose, an amazing real-time hand-tracking system

Thanks to the Kinect, Microsoft is well known for its expertise in developing motion-sensing systems. While the technology has improved over the years, tracking human hands still has a long way to go. Enter Microsoft Research’s Handpose.

In short, Handpose is a real-time articulated hand-tracker. The system can accurately reconstruct complex hand poses using only a single depth camera (such as the Xbox One’s Kinect). As you might expect, Microsoft Research’s goal is to enable new human-computer interactions.