Final Fantasy XIV Player Literally Dabs On Boss With Kinect

Final Fantasy XIV, like most video games, is far from physically taxing despite the often-incredible feats performed by your character on-screen. But what if you, say, actually had to dance to get the Dancer job moving? Absolute madman Super Louis 64 answered this question earlier today, and the results are pretty impressive.

Using an old Microsoft Kinect camera meant for Xbox 360 and a middleware known as FAAST, Louis was able to make it so that certain body movements translated into keyboard inputs. This essentially gave him the ability to perform Dancer job abilities with some simple, real-life dance moves. He quickly hit a snag, however, upon realizing he might not be able to pull off the in-game actions as perfectly as he wanted.

“My first goal with the mod was to map the motion controls as close as possible to the motions of the dance steps in the game,” Louis explains in the video. “However, after seeing each dance step and realizing my back isn’t getting any younger, I had to take some creative liberties and make sure I didn’t need to be Raised mid-dance.”

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