Winextra – World of Warcraft gets Kinectified – will the game ever be the same?

World of Warcraft, one of the most popular games in the world, may see its biggest changed ever thanks to Microsoft and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

Microsoft’s part in this is pretty simple – they brought the Kinect to market and made is a geek’s dream to hack into. USC’s part on the other hand is a little more complicated because they are the ones who have created the Flexible Action and Articulated Toolkit, or FAAST.

What is FAAST you ask?

Well it is a software layer built over OpenNI and your Kinect that recognizes a skeleton and enables you to map about 20 different motions to specific key presses.

This means you can lean forward to walk, raise your right arm to perform an action, and then sit down to take a breather after all that exertion. It’s currently versioned .03, so don’t expect miracles, but it is available for free at the other end of the source link.

via Engadget

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Bill Vincent

Hell, I didn't even know that WoW was on the consoles.

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Paul OFlaherty

Awesome - with a little more polish this could get me back into MMORPG's :) Also, the ability to "kinectify" existing games opens up a huge potential market for MSFT.