1. A method for enhancing detection of a user's hand relative to a head-mounted display (HMD), comprising: sensing a disrupted portion of energy, when disrupted, by a plurality of sensors integrated within a pad device and arranged in an array, wherein the disrupted portion of the energy is generated when the hand of the user is placed proximate to the pad device, wherein the plurality of sensors that sense the disrupted portion of the energy produce an energy image that mirrors a current position of the hand; repeating the sensing continuously to produce a stream of energy images, the stream of energy images showing changes of the position of the hand while the sensing is being repeated; and communicating the stream of energy images to a game console for processing each of the energy images to produce a model of the hand and movement of the model of the hand, wherein the model of the hand is at least partially rendered as a virtual hand in a virtual environment that is displayed in the HMD.