Kinect Hacked to Play World of Warcraft

After invisibility, 3D holographs and many more hacks of the Kinect being "discovered", techies from the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies have built a toolkit that let you play World of Warcraft using the Kinect's various image processing and motion sensing powers.

Dubbed the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit a.k.a FAAST, it facilitates full body control and VR applications via a clever processing server that streams the user's skeleton patter, including body position and gestures which can be mapped onto keyboard controls.

The code if free for non commercial use as the Institue plan to develop simple medically inspired games for rehabilitation of motor-skills after a stroke, and even for reducing childhood obesity through "healthy gaming".