We have written before on how just fanatic WoW players can get - check out the WoWpod -, but this is a new one: two WoW fans decided to race across the Azeroth area on Real Life Foot. How did they do that? They hooked up two threadmills to their PC's and using the WoW scripting engine for input devices, they track the speed of their threadmills and convert that to in-world movement. Keep in mind: where the WoW character runs 12 miles/hour (20km/h), their humans only need to run 6 miles/hour (10km/h).
Some say this guys are making a fool out of themselves - with big elves ears and wigs - but they actually do make a good point about the ease of transportation in Virtual Worlds. We can fly and run great distances, and see a lot of things in virtual worlds, where it would actually take us ages in real life: hup on train, go to airport, check in, flight cancelled, wait, catch new flight, arrive, take metro, ... . As they say: the strain on doing this in the virtual world is walk in the park, the strain on doing it in RL is brutal. And then you're not even dragging a 20 kilo's armour, weaponry and inventory along! ;)
Regardless if you want to do deep thinking on this or just a good laugh, this video is definitely worth a look:
More info on the production process at Mana - Race Across Azaroth.
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