By Alec Meer on June 17th, 2008 at 9:57 am.
One of my favourite things about the PC? That someone clever always finds a way to make other platform’s toys work on it. Case in point, the Wii Fit balance board. Matthieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler, students at the German Research Centre For Artificial Intelligence, have got the stationary surfboard hooked up to a PC via Bluetooth and working as a makeshift movement controller for WoW:
Peggle next, please.
17/06/2008 at 10:35 Leelad says:
The music makes this video the best ever.
Gives it the sound of an early 90′s school educational video!!
17/06/2008 at 10:48 derFeef says:
Why arent they facing the wall? Just for show purposes?
17/06/2008 at 11:28 cliffski says:
i just expect to see men with beards shagging women with permed hair to that music.
17/06/2008 at 11:55 Crispy says:
Heh, if we see anyone running in straight lines bumping into trees in WoW, now we know why!
P.S. Yes the music is FIT!
17/06/2008 at 11:58 The_B says:
@cliffski I think that’s definitely a use for the balance board not as Nintendo intended…
17/06/2008 at 12:04 Baliame says:
Or otherwise Nintendo intended people to find out that’s the best use for it.
17/06/2008 at 12:28 K says:
Shouldn’t they be playing Magic Carpet?
17/06/2008 at 13:00 megaman says:
Hm, aren’t there better uses for that board? I can’t come up with one right now, but there MUST be something better. I hope.
Also, if that’s how german students sound nowadays I am happy I graduated a couple of years ago.
17/06/2008 at 14:01 Pento says:
WoW? Pfft. Audiosurf is where it’s at.
17/06/2008 at 14:54 Mitterand says:
You can do stupid stuff with consoles too. Tekken 3 controlled by dance mats is ace fun (and if you pick Dr B you can actually play well enough to beat someone with a controller).
17/06/2008 at 15:59 Jochen Scheisse says:
I think I saw something like this on some arcade Snowboarding simulator. Nice geeking though.
17/06/2008 at 16:33 phuzz says:
Guru Meditation simulator surely?
17/06/2008 at 19:29 Phil White says:
Does the board have four sensors? It can’t be very adaptable if so.
And yes: ’tis very ‘I’ve come to fix your Nintendo’.
18/06/2008 at 00:30 Cian says:
It seems such a waste to see it used for WoW as opposed to something like SSX.
Although thinking of that, didn’t it come with a board of it’s own?
18/06/2008 at 10:37 Pod says:
haha that video reeks of everything that’s greay about sleazy european porn. (wait -what?!)
18/06/2008 at 16:57 kenoxite says:
Funny. That’s what I thought we’d say in the 90′s about a video like this… just comparing it to the 80s!
Does it make this an instant classic?
18/06/2008 at 22:19 The Shed says:
Nowhere near as cool as Johnny Lee’s headtracking Wii-based VR system. Scroll down a bit and check that shit.