Rise Predicted in Non-touch Gesture-sensing

Driven by smart watches, smart TVs, emerging virtual reality games, and new information technology (IT) applications, shipments of user interfaces employing free-form (non-contact) gesture-sensing should reach 1.8 billion units this year, according to analyst firm IHS. Although touch-screen technology rules the smart-phone and tablet worlds, it less suits televisions, for example, owing to the distance between the device and viewers. IHS thus sees non-contact gesture-sensing control complementing rather than competing with touchscreens.

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