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Kinect Hacked To Play Full-Body World of Warcraft
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Rachel Mansur
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The world has been overflowing with Microsoft Kinect hacks, each more amazing than the last. The latest innovation, created by a group of engineers at USC, promises an exciting future in gaming (and gets gamers off their asses). The program is called FAAST, and allows for full body motion control in different PC applications, such as World of Warcraft, as demonstrated below:

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MK (53) 12/30/10 3:47 PM
Would love to get my hands on one of these!
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Paul (1) 1/6/11 8:23 PM
This is a million times better than that Warcraft-on-a-treadmill device
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BradSumner 1/20/11 7:25 AM
imagine adding a goggle headset and it would be getting very close to a virtual reality setup
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JasonParnell 1/27/11 11:54 AM
about time someone made world of warcraft fun again....cataclysm is a joke
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