A company that builds vision technologies for consumer applications has raised more than $6m in recent financing from Intel Corp and from Interval Research, the Silicon Valley start- up established by Paul Allen and David Liddle. Specific terms of the deals were not disclosed. E-Planet claims its technology uses digital video cameras to enable personal computers to see into the real world, make sense of what they see and act accordingly. In other words, users can interact with their computer simply by moving around for the camera. Eventually, the company hopes to replace keyboards, mice and joysticks, presumably with a generation of computer-literate mimes.
