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Microsoft Kinect With World of Warcraft 80

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @07:26AM from the get-some-exercise-while-you-raid dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies have developed software that enables control of PC video games using the Microsoft Kinect sensor. Their toolkit, known as the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST), emulates custom-configured keyboard controls triggered by body posture and specific gestures. This video shows a user playing the online game World of Warcraft using the Kinect. Potential applications of this technology include video games for motor rehabilitation after stroke and reducing childhood obesity through healthy gaming."

Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut 179

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:35PM from the in-a-backyard-far-far-away dept.

eldavojohn writes "Star Wars Uncut has taken a novel approach to remaking Star Wars IV: A New Hope. You merely sign up for a 15 second clip, film it and submit it. The trailer is now complete and I will suspect you might enjoy the high quality (and low quality) of some of the already accepted scenes. 251 scenes remain in need of claiming with 688 claimed and 291 finished. Do your part to remake one of the greatest movies by filming fifteen seconds of yourself and your friends!"

Comment It's not that we don't care (Score 1) 485

by demoman2k8 on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @10:15AM (#22782860) Attached to: Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?

It's not that we don't care. It's more that we have been aware that we the US has been enabling other partners in the WEST to spy on the US for us. Project Echelon would be a great example and the listening post in Canada that was funded by NSA funds. This has been a widely known fact for several years now. I do think it's sad that we have been such a free nation growing up. And now have had to become much more JADED since 9/11. Whether it's a NSA funded program using a Neighbor to spy on us, or an Agency that is INTERNAL to the United States. Domestic spying is here and if we didn't like it. Probably should have told J. Edgar Hover to STOP back then.

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