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:

• USC
• ICT
• USCICT
• creative technologies
• world of warcraft
• microsoft
• kinect
• primesense
• OpenNI
• FAAST
• exercise
• exergaming

[sxmaxchine]

imagine the fit kids at skool will all be wow players

[conexy2k7]

Omg, if blizzard looks this, they would made an EXCELLENT patch for the use of kinect, 't's a GOLD MINE

[KHfanz]

lol is it sad that this video alone makes me want to renew my wow subscription so i can exercise while playing an mmo?

[BeCAVENGED]

Tbh this is pretty stupid.. It'd be impossible to do all those movements to do all you abilities. You'd be waving your hands like an idiot. And I hear this is the new way to get fat kids fit. It's called 'OUTSIDE'. Pretty simple method.....

[Fratswow]

Yeah man you could use kinnect to get kids up and moving around! Or you could get decent fucking parents to kick them outside and say go fucking beach go play go do something!

[kolchanoff]

Kinect for paladins

[perryhanson1128]

This vid went viral on Ireland

[Saber9933]

You will never be able to use your water elemental's freeze. Or Blizzard.

Looks neat, though and I would totally level a character with that (on a pve server)

[TrippleTTTyler]

it will work on runescape but not nearly as well.

[popupboii]

When was it coming out?? i want it

[U1T1M4T3K1LL3R]

will this work with runescape??