Thematic interactive attraction
The invention is generally directed to an attraction which draws a visitor's attention from other visual attractions in a fashion which provides a stunning visual perspective including a collection of curated images organized and facilitated by a human ambassador providing narrative and visual content and varying the visual presentation in an interactive fashion with an audience utilizing a gesture-based language to manufacture a bespoke experience.
1. An improved thematic interactive attraction, comprising:
a geometrically arranged plurality of displays;
a control system for providing images to be shown on the displays;
an interactive control coupled to the control system for selecting the images to be displayed;
the plurality of displays being arranged in a vertically oriented closed loop with an open center, the closed loop having a front side wherein images shown on each of the plurality of displays would be visible to an audience facing the front side and a rear side where a human concierge using the interactive control can be positioned and would be visible by the audience through the open center.
2. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 1 , wherein the closed loop has a generally circular shape made up of a plurality of individual video displays.
3. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 1 , wherein the control system includes a library of images organized to allow the interactive control to be used in the selection of individual images for display on at least one of the plurality of displays.
4. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 1 , wherein the control system is able to acquire images from remote libraries, internet locations, cameras or other image capture devices.
5. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 1 , wherein the control system has an ordered procession of images to be displayed.
6. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 1 , wherein the control system is configured to display on the displays a partially set order of images and a partially interactive order of images.
7. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 1 , wherein the interactive control comprises a touch display disposed on the rear side of the geometrically arranged plurality of displays.
8. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of displays are in separate respective housings and adjacent displays of the geometrically arranged plurality of displays at least partially overlap each other.
9. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 1 , wherein adjacent displays of the geometrically arranged plurality of displays have respective horizontal axes that are angled with respect to each other.
10. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 9 , wherein the respective horizontal axis angle between each respective pair of adjacent displays is substantially the same.
11. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 1 , wherein the closed loop is generally circular, the plurality of displays are in separate respective housings, adjacent displays of the geometrically arranged plurality of displays at least partially overlap each other and have respective horizontal axes that are angled with respect to each other.
12. An improved thematic interactive attraction, comprising:
a geometrically organized plurality of video display screens;
a control system, coupled to the video display screens for controlling the display of images on the video display screens;
an interactive control configured to receive input from a human concierge, the interactive control coupled to the control system for controlling the selection of images to be displayed on the video display screens; and
the control system having a data store with a narrative of images stored therein organized to be sequenced through by the human concierge;
wherein the control system is configured to display the selected images on a number of the video display screens ranging from one video display screen to all of the video display screens based on input by the human concierge;
the plurality of video display screens being arranged in a vertically oriented closed loop with an open center, the closed loop having a front side wherein images shown on each of the plurality of displays would be visible to an audience facing the front side and a rear side where the human concierge using the control system can be positioned and would be visible by the audience through the open center.
13. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 12 , wherein the closed loop is generally circular.
14. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 12 , wherein the interactive control is configured for connection to the control system with a Bluetooth, near field communication or wired connection controller.
15. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 12 , wherein the interactive control connects to the control system with a gesture language input making use of a wireless gesture regulating device.
16. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 12 , wherein the interactive control is configured for use in sequencing the narrative of images and select among different images.
17. The improved thematic interactive attraction of claim 16 , wherein the narrative of images includes fixed sequences of images and variable sequences of images which can be selected by the human concierge using the interactive control.
18. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 12 , wherein the interactive control comprises a touch display disposed on the rear side of the geometrically organized plurality of video display screens.
19. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 12 , wherein adjacent video display screens have respective horizontal axes that are angled with respect to each other.
20. The improved thematic interaction attraction of claim 12 , wherein adjacent video display screens are in separate respective housings and at least partially overlap each other.