1. A method for executing and interpreting gesture inputs in a gesture recognition interface system, the method comprising: detecting and translating a first sub-gesture provided by a first hand of a user in a three-dimensional gesture recognition environment into a first device input that defines a given reference associated with a portion of displayed visual content; detecting and translating a second sub-gesture provided by a second hand of a user while concurrently maintaining the first sub-gesture with the first hand of the user in the three-dimensional gesture recognition environment into a second device input that defines an execution command for the portion of the displayed visual content to which the given reference refers; and detecting and translating a third sub-gesture into a third device input that is configured to execute a command associated with manipulation of the portion of the displayed visual content to which the given reference refers while at least one of the first and second sub-gestures is maintained.