Daily Blue, Nihilum live raid stream, Eye gaze tracking in WoW

2008 WoW Arena Tournament Phase 3 Begins

Registration for the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament's first qualification round is now closed and Phase 3 of the tournament has begun. Participants have been battling it out on the tournament realms for the past two weeks while fine-tuning their team composition and strategies. Phase 3 of the tournament includes a lockdown of the teams that will be jockeying for position to compete in the regional finals. To track the progress of your team and the competition as a whole, please visit the World of Warcraft Armory. For more information on the tournament, please visit our Arena Tournament information page. Good luck to all competitors!


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Before Lich King comes out I'm betting there will be new icons for level 80 and everyone will be in Tier 7. We have no plans to update the icons before that time.


Nihilum live raid stream

Tonight at 19:00 CET Nihilum in conjunction with Xfire and Dyyno will be hosting a live raid streaming event. You will be able to watch them raid the newest instance Sunwell Plateau through the eyes of 4 raiders:
Kungen
Buzzkill
Darmor
Johnny_R

To access the live video stream, click one of the four classes buttons to the right of the Xfire event page. By doing so, you will get into the action from the point of view of that player. After selecting which player you want to follow your browser will ask you to install the Dyyno browser plug-in - Just hit Accept/Yes and you're set. If you are using Windows Vista, you will need to run the browser as Administrator to install the plug-in, just right-click on your internet explorer or firefox icon and select "Run as administrator" from the pop-up menu.

If you need any more help refer to the Dyyno Broadcast FAQ.

They have a 1,000 viewers cap; so if you want a spot, make sure you show up on time.


Eye gaze tracking in WoW

The TechCrunch crew tested an eye tracking software (a tracking system for your gaze) that has been retrofitted to work with WoW. Basically the cursor goes where you look on the monitor and looking offscreen in several directions will trigger different modes (i.e locomotion, combat, loot). Click on the picture below to watch the demo.

Eye-gaze systems bounce infrared light from LEDs at the bottom of a computer monitor and track a person’s eye movements using stereo infrared cameras. This setup can calculate where on a screen the user is looking with an accuracy of about 5 mm.

This "Snap Clutch" software has been developed at De Montfort University, UK in collaboration with University of Tampere, Finland. The idea behind this project is to help the handicapped (or not), you can do some things as solo/group pve in WoW, but you would have serious troubles in pvp & raids without a keyboard.

interresting playing with only ur eyes

The eye gaze tracking is really awesome. I look forward to more info about this bad boy.

Interesting but curious about it entering other modes when looking off-screen. If it gets widely used, how long before someone gets banned for botting using it?

Correct me if I'm wrong. You cannot download the activeX (Dynoo script) until they really start broadcasting? Been searching everywhere on their site but no luck.

Muru kill vid.
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=74009

Imo they released it to early, but well, its out there.

Infrared beams blasting in your eyes for extended periods of time. Im no doctor but this cannot be healthy.

nihilum live raid stream.. whats the point?
2 guilds have already killed muru and there is even a kill vid out on it

i am sure watching people wipe over and over for hours until they finally get their world 3rd kill is entertaining

although it would be a different story if the live stream was on nihilum going for their world first on KJ

Nihilum dont do live streams on world firsts i think you understand why also , but hell yeah it would be AWESOME if they did it on Kil'jaeden! i would bring popcorn and lots of soda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKd_AJUUT7Q Its called Neural Impulse Actuator by OCZ, you use your mind to click buttons while only moving the mouse, to look around. Seems much more advanced than eye tracking. Although combining both would be kinda evil.

why would I want to watch Nihilum scrubs on livestream do Sunwell? Give me SK

I watched nihilium, crappy stream but fun enough. some dude from the chat linked this pic from when they whiped (lol)

Quote (twosips2, 07 May 2008, 15:24)

Im no doctor but this cannot be healthy.

Indeed you are not a physician, nor are you a physicist. Infrared light is exceptionally common and permeates the world we live in. For instance, nearly all radiative heat (burning embers, hot radiator, fire) comes as infrared radiation. It also comes in small quantities from any object at room temperature or higher (the quantity increasing with temperature), which is why you don't need an infrared light to look around with infrared goggles; there's already plenty of it to go around.
And I've never heard of someone having trouble from looking at a fire...

Edit: Of course large quantities of it can be dangerous, as with anything else. IR lasers are known to be particularly efficient at burning the retina, but then, lasers in the visible spectrum are as dangerous (except that they make you blink, which helps prevent damage).
As long as they use a diffuse source it should be alright, because, as I said, there are a lot more intense sources around (glowing coals being particularly intense).

Thought they would have needed way more than 1,000 spots

Quote (Dessimus, 07 May 2008, 19:56)

Thought they would have needed way more than 1,000 spots

They did.

Chat was nothing but people bitching about how they weren't in the stream.