Ride vehicle mounted interactive game system

1. A combination of amusement park attraction ride vehicles

with gesture-based game controllers to form an interactive amusement ride including a ride vehicle mounted interactive system including ride-mounted game displays, cameras and gesture recognition software for each of a plurality of riders that capture rider gestures, and convert said gestures into signals that are inputs to, and affect, said ride-mounted game, wherein each of the ride vehicles has a gesture control camera installed within the vehicles for each rider; further comprising, for each vehicle, an on-board computer to aggregate a plurality of rider gestures for input to said interactive ride's off-board computers.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising an off-board master computer to connect vehicle gesture data with multiple off-board scene computers, in order to allow interactivity between riders and the surrounding attraction.

3. A combination of amusement park attraction ride vehicles

with gesture-based game controllers to form an interactive amusement ride comprising, for each rider, a game display device, a camera to capture rider gestures, a gesture library to analyze and identify a rider's gestures, and a computer to aggregate a plurality of rider gestures for input to said game and for display of changes to the game resulting from the input, wherein each of the ride vehicles has a gesture control camera installed within the vehicles for each rider; further comprising, for each vehicle, an on-board computer to aggregate a plurality of rider gestures for input to said interactive ride's off-board computers.

4. The system of claim 3 further comprising an off-board master computer to connect vehicle gesture data with multiple off-board scene computers, in order to allow interactivity between riders and the surrounding attraction.