The gesture recognition market has seen considerable growth due to a variety of factors.
• The size of the gesture recognition market has seen immense growth in recent years. The value will rise from $23.37 billion in 2024 to $28.23 billion in 2025, marking a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.8%.
This accelerated growth in the historical period can ascribe to contact-less interfaces for cleanliness, the increasing demand from the gaming industry, applications in healthcare, features promoting accessibility, along with industrial and corporate applications.
The gesture recognition market is expected to maintain its strong growth trajectory in upcoming years.
• The projected expansion of the gesture recognition market size is expected to be enormous in the coming years, with an anticipated growth to $70.28 billion in 2029 and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.6%.
The growth within these projected years can be linked to the increased application in retail settings, public spaces and kiosks, expanded usage in the automotive sector, and the upward trend in the entertainment industry, as well as gesture-oriented healthcare monitoring. Key trends within these anticipated years encompass integrating consumer electronics, gaming and virtual reality (VR), industrial and manufacturing uses, educational and training solutions, security, authentication, and the development of gesture recognition software kits.
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The escalation of digitalization is fostering the expansion of the gesture recognition market. To aid in the digitalization of extensive processes, a multitude of companies and organizations are turning to biometrics solutions. Biometrics encompasses a scientific technique that discerns an individual's gestures by gauging their physical or behavioral attributes, and it finds varied applications in devices like mobiles, laptops, and screenings. Companies are increasingly adopting biometric technologies owing to the security benefits and operational ease they offer. In a prediction made by Imageware, a biometrics identification and authentication solutions company based in the US, the global biometric technology market is predicted to hit $55.42 billion by 2027. Thus, the proliferation of digitalization is fuelling the growth of the gesture recognition market.
The gesture recognition market covered in this report is segmented –
1) By Type: Online Gesture, Offline Gesture
2) By Technology: Touch-Based, Touchless
3) By Authentication Type: Finger Print Recognition, Face Recognition, Vision And IRIS Recognition, Hand And Leg Recognition
4) By Industry: Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Sports, Healthcare, Advertisement And Communication, Aerospace And Defense, Government, Other Industries
Subsegments:
1) By Online Gesture: Real-Time Gesture Recognition, Gesture Tracking And Analysis
2) By Offline Gesture: Pre-Recorded Gesture Recognition, Gesture Database And Pattern Recognition
Technological advancements are becoming a dominant trend in the gesture recognition industry. Major players in this market are focusing their efforts on producing innovative technological solutions in order to satisfy customer needs and consolidate their market standing. STMicroelectronics, a Swiss semiconductor corporation, launched a touchless gesture-control system catered for straightforward, budget-friendly consumer and corporate applications in July 2022. This system, named STGesture, serves as a companion software to the VL53L5CX Time-of-Flight (ToF) ranging sensor produced by the company. The software is equipped with basic gesture recognition, using the VL53L5CX proximity ToF sensor to register tap and swipe movements.
Major companies operating in the gesture recognition market include:
• Apple Inc.
• Intel Corporation
•Microchip Technology Inc.
•Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
• Synaptics Inc.
• Google LLC
• GestureTek
• PointGrab Ltd.
• Ultraleap Ltd.
• Oblong Inc.
•Sony Corporation
•EyeSight Technologies
•Omron Corporation
•Elliptic Labs
•GestureTek
• Crunchfish AB
•XYZ Interactive Technologies Inc.
• Pebbles Interfaces
• Vayyar Imaging Ltd.
• Intel RealSense Technology
• Gestoos
•Gestigon GmbH
• pmdtechnologies ag
North America was the largest region in the gesture recognition market in 2024. The regions covered in the gesture recognition market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa