World of Warcraft with Microsoft Kinect using FAAST and OpenNI

We are developing the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST), which is middleware to facilitate integration of full-body control with games and VR applications. FAAST currently supports the PrimeSensor and the Microsoft Kinect using the OpenNI framework.

In this video, we show how FAAST can be used to control off-the-shelf video games such as World of Warcraft. Since these games would not normally support motion sensing devices, FAAST emulates keyboard input triggered by body posture and specific gestures. These controls can be dynamically configured for different applications and games.

FAAST is free software that uses the OpenNI framework (www.openni.org). We are currently preparing the toolkit for an open-source release. You can download FAAST at: http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/faast/

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Evan A. Suma, Belinda Lange, Skip Rizzo, David Krum, and Mark Bolas
MxR Lab: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/work/
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• world of warcraft
• microsoft kinect
• primesense
• OpenNI
• FAAST
• ICT
• exercise
• exergaming

[tonyalmeidaist]

Awesome! thanks buddy, google ownyo.



[TheCameltotem]

Bruce lee would get gladiator if he used this in arena!

[Darkkniteofmalorne]

@MrStanke25 screw u WoW is better than kinect!

[TheDematzonerix]

shitty

[Thai7331]

@ChikoreaBR I'd shit bricks!

[86MysteryMan]

lol that is so true man lol

[jaxondad]

Lol i raid for six hours every week ill be fucking ripped in a month

[MrStanke25]

So this is another parenting tool to allow parents to neglect their kids to a fantasy world but without the consequences of them getting to be little 'rollie pollie ollies'? Destroy WoW - make Kinect better. make the Kinect an academic device.

[ineedhack2]

mages are a real joke , i can play in that class with my leg finger toe