The SynthHands dataset is a dataset for hand pose estimation which consists of real captured hand motion retargeted to a virtual hand with natural backgrounds and interactions with different objects. The dataset contains data for male and female hands, both with and without interaction with objects. While the hand and foreground object are synthtically generated using Unity, the motion was obtained from real performances as described in the accompanying paper. In addition, real object textures and background images (depth and color) were used. Ground truth 3D positions are provided for 21 keypoints of the hand.