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Work · October 3, 2012

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Add 3D gestures to your applications

We're a three-person team based out of San Francisco trying to fundamentally change the way people interact with computers.

Add 3D gestures to your applications launched on October 3, 2012 with 28 votes, #67 of 487 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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3Gear Systems is a gesture recognition platform that enables developers to add hand gesture controls to applications. The San Francisco-based team has built the technology to detect and interpret hand movements as computer input. The software is designed for developers seeking to integrate gesture-based interaction into their applications as an alternative input method.

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We started 3Gear Systems with the singular goal of creating a gesture recognition system that actually works. We've been disappointed by what's currently available, and felt that with our backgrounds , we could build something a lot better—something reliable enough and powerful enough to become a basic part of interacting with a computer. Since we founded the company in March 2012, we've stayed lean and 100% focused on solving the hard computer vision and human-computer interaction problems involved in building the world's best gesture recognition technology. What started as a project from one of our co-founder's PhD work at MIT , evolved into a system that used two Kinect cameras set…from threegearsystems.blogspot.com

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