Barehands: Webcam-Powered Hand Tracking to Control Your Screen Without a Headset
Barehands is a free, open-source project that turns a standard webcam and the Chrome browser into a glass board you control with your hands — no headset, no controllers, no gloves. It uses Google MediaPipe to track your hands in real time and lets you tap, drag, scale, and throw items across your screen, even wiring in an AI that sees, hears, and acts through the same interface. What Is Barehands and Why It Matters Barehands (jaredrhod/barehands on GitHub) is a webcam-based hand-tracking interface that lets you control a 3D “glass board” on your screen with natural hand gestures. Created in mid-August 2026, it already holds roughly 907 GitHub stars and about 199 forks, according to the GitHub API as of September 7, 2026 — remarkable velocity for a project less than a month old. ...