The gesture recognition & touchless sensing technologies enable a user to interact with a device to perform a specific task without having to touch it. The gesture recognition market is classified based on technology and industry vertical. The touchless sensing market is broadly classified based on products into touchless biometrics and touchless sanitary equipment, along with technologies and industry verticals.

Over the next decade, gestural recognition could replace touch sensing as the leading edge computer input technology. Although gestural recognition and control technology has served niche markets in gaming and virtual reality for some time, According to market report the gestural recognition will begin to generate significant revenues in general industrial applications, as well as in the signage, healthcare, automotive and telepresence sectors.

This surge in interest in gestural recognition will lead to a broad range of opportunities in the sensor, camera and related businesses. The rise of gestural recognition will have important implications for the 3D display market; possibly bring such displays into the computer display mainstream. Together, these prospects could be worth billions of dollars to components and sub-systems makers.

At the present time, gestural recognition technology is immature with a variety of sensor and camera options appearing on this market. Some of these will create large businesses. Others will fall by the wayside.