Traveling through Azeroth with the Balance Board
If you remember their last video, these two chaps from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Center demonstrated a hack for the Balance Board enabling them to travel through Google Earth and Second Life with the peripheral. In this video, the two have modified the board to control movement in another virtual world -- World of Warcraft.
The Warcraft portion doesn't appear until the 44-second mark, and you can't really do much with the Balance Board save walk around, so don't expect to take down any high-level elite mobs or lead a raid with the hack. But it's still cool to see non-traditional uses for the expensive peripheral! For more Balance Board mods, stay tune for our own Mike Sylvester's Wii Racing Experiment!
[Via Massively]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2d4u @ Jun 15th 2008 3:27PM
omg, this is so embarassing for me to hear! please note that not all of us germans have such a bad pronounciation!!
TendoMan @ Jun 15th 2008 3:47PM
Amen to that. Thats just horrible! hahah.
Mr Khan @ Jun 15th 2008 4:11PM
Huh, i'm surprised it worked at all. MMO developers usually work their asses off to make sure that alternate software can't be run in tandem with their programs
Mike Sylvester @ Jun 15th 2008 6:25PM
People have been using GlovePIE with WoW for a long time, but I have come across a few offline games that just won't function with GlovePIE running.
ballistic3188 @ Jun 15th 2008 4:44PM
not to sound too unimpressed. but their use of this technology is pretty much the eqivalent to a analog stick. the shifting of ones wieght to deternine the speed or the direction is easily replicated and better controlled with the tilting of the analog stick.
BillyUno @ Jul 4th 2008 6:22PM
I wonder if it would be possible to use this in combination with the wiimote in order to emulate the mouse. Then you could do... well just about everything you CAN do in this game.