Rendering of virtual hand pose based on detected hand input

A non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause said at least one computing device to perform a method including the following operations:

• receiving, from a controller device that is held by a user's hand, controller input that identifies postures of at least two fingers of the user's hand;
• determining a similarity of the controller input by the at least two fingers of the user's hand that holds the controller device to a predefined target input;
• rendering in a virtual space a virtual hand that corresponds to the controller device,
• wherein when the similarity exceeds a predefined threshold, then, in response the virtual hand is animated so that a pose of the virtual hand transitions to a predefined hand pose, such that postures of fingers of the virtual hand transition to predefined finger postures of the predefined hand pose, and
• wherein when the similarity does not exceed the predefined threshold, then the virtual hand is rendered so that the pose of the virtual hand dynamically changes in response to changes in the controller input.

A system, comprising:

• a controller device, that is held by a user's hand, that generates controller input that identifies postures of at least two fingers of the user's hand;
• a computing device that determines a similarity of the controller input by the at least two fingers of the user's hand that holds the controller device to a predefined target input, and
• wherein the computing device renders in a virtual space a virtual hand that corresponds to the controller device,
• wherein when the similarity exceeds a predefined threshold, then, in response the virtual hand is animated so that a pose of the virtual hand transitions to a predefined hand pose, such that postures of fingers of the virtual hand transition to predefined finger postures of the predefined hand pose, and
• wherein when the similarity does not exceed the predefined threshold, then the virtual hand is rendered so that the pose of the virtual hand dynamically changes in response to changes in the controller input.