Omek Raises $7 Million From Intel, Aims To Challenge Microsoft’s Kinect

Exclusive - Omek Interactive , a provider of tools that enables companies to incorporate gesture recognition and full body tracking into their applications and devices, has secured $7 million in financing in a round led by Intel Capital , TechCrunch has learned. The Series C round brings the company's total funding raised to nearly $14 million. Omek’s Beckon technology converts the raw depth map data from most major 3D cameras into an awareness of people and their movements or positions in front of the camera, enabling them to be converted into commands that control hardware or software.