What do you get when you combine the most popular gaming console (Wii) and the most popular MMORPG in history (WOW), you get a combination that can be at best yelled out as WOW-Wii. 2 German students from German Research Center For Artificial Intelligence managed to surf Google Earth using a Wii-Fit Balance Board? Now they have reached further hacking Wii-fit and using the white balance board in the biggest MMOG World of Warcraft blending exercise and in-game raiding experience.
Grad students Matthieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler showed in a you -tube video titled “User Interactions with the Wii Balance Board”, how they used the periphal of Wii-fit to control the movement inside World of Warcraft. Here is the link to that video -
They change the characters’ orientation by leaning forwards and backwards, and then lean forward or backwards for movement in those various directions .Seems like Now WOW players can be in a dark room and get slightly fitter all at the same time :P.Serious developers should take hint at this, so they could implement both the board and remote for an action title.
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