Brief Description

Interactive Ride Attractions

Even today, rides are very often supported by movies. Thus, every ride experience is exactly the same. These rides have just a short life time until they become boring.

The next generation of attractions will not be produced passively anymore by showing pneumatically driven exhibits or pre-produced movies. Punkt im Raum is working on simulated 3D worlds in which the viewer will be integrated and where the objects react to the viewer’s own actions.

Moreover, these new attractions are interactive and can easily be updated. Which means that every ride in this attraction is never the same because of the interactivity; new content and new image worlds can be inserted quickly—the ride is always changing.

This is an enormous reassurance and provides investment protection for the owner of such an attraction!

In Practice

An Example

The dark ride simulator: Punkt im Raum is currently developing a so called “Dark ride”, where the viewers pass screens in their cars on which interactive content in 3D stereo is projected. The calculation takes into consideration the viewer’s car’s position and interactions caused by the viewers in the car during the ride. The objects in the scene can be interactively manipulated to simulate 3D stereo effects.

Outlook

Several attractions can be connected via a network. This makes it possible to organize e.g. contests between the installations in different locations.