Gestural gaming: World of Warcraft with Xbox Kinect

written by: Gianluigi Cuccureddu

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Published on Thursday, 30 December 2010 10:26

This is really cool! 

Mashable reports that a group from the University of Southern California has created a Xbox Kinect hack that enables gesture-based spell casting and controls for World of Warcraft.

USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies has created and released FAAST, or the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit. It’s a middleware toolkit that helps integrate full-body motion controls for games via the Kinect’s sensors. Essentially, ICT makes it possible to map full-body gestures to different keyboard commands.