Technologies for gesture recognition using downsampling are disclosed. A gesture recognition device may capture gesture data from a gesture measurement device, and downsample the captured data to a predefined number of data points. The gesture recognition device may then perform gesture recognition on the downsampled gesture data to recognize a gesture, and then perform an action based on the recognized gesture. The number of data points to which to downsample may be determined by downsampling to several different numbers of data points and comparing the performance of a gesture recognition algorithm performed on the downsampled gesture data for each different number of data points.