Interactive entertainment attraction using telepresence vehicles

An entertainment attraction comprising:

• a plurality of remote-controlled vehicles, each vehicle includes a camera for imaging a field of view of the camera;
• an environment for the plurality of vehicles to traverse;
• a plurality of driver consoles, each driver console corresponds to one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, each driver console includes a monitor for displaying the imaged field of view of the camera of the corresponding vehicle;
• and
• a control system communicatively coupled with the plurality of driver consoles, the control system including a plurality of detectors dispersed about the environment, a detector is configured to sense a vehicle, and, in response to sensing the vehicle, the control system is programmed to provide an overlay over the displayed field of view of the camera of the vehicle.

An entertainment attraction comprising:

• a plurality of remote-controlled vehicles, each vehicle includes a camera for imaging a field of view of the camera;
• a plurality of driver consoles, each driver console corresponds to one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, each driver console includes a monitor for displaying the imaged field of view of the camera of the corresponding vehicle;
• and
• an environment for the plurality of vehicles to traverse, the environment includes a plurality of walls arranged to form a maze for the plurality of vehicles to negotiate, and the walls are arranged to form corridors of sufficient dimension relative to the size of a vehicle to give the appearance that the vehicle is going faster than its actual speed as viewed by the displayed field of view of the camera of the vehicle negotiating the maze.

An entertainment attraction comprising:

• a plurality of remote-controlled vehicles;
• an environment for the plurality of vehicles to traverse, the environment includes a plurality of reconfigurable portions;
• a plurality of driver consoles, each driver console corresponds to one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, each driver console includes a control device for providing a driver-initiated control signal;
• a control system communicatively coupled with the plurality of reconfigurable portions and the plurality of driver consoles, the control system includes a plurality of detectors, each detector corresponds to one reconfigurable portion of the plurality of reconfigurable portions, a detector is configured to sense a vehicle, and the control system is programmed to reconfigure, according to the driver-initiated control signal provided by the control device of the driver console corresponding to the sensed vehicle, the reconfigurable portion corresponding to the detector that sensed the vehicle.

An entertainment attraction comprising:

• a plurality of remote-controlled vehicles, each vehicle includes a camera for imaging a field of view of the camera;
• a plurality of driver consoles, each driver console corresponds to one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, each driver console includes a monitor for displaying the imaged field of view of the camera of the corresponding vehicle;
• and
• an environment for the plurality of vehicles to traverse, the environment disposed out of direct view of a plurality of game players located at the plurality of driver consoles but in direct view of a plurality of spectators watching the plurality of vehicles traversing the environment.

An entertainment attraction comprising:

• a plurality of remote-controlled vehicles, each vehicle includes,
• an identification device for providing an identifier that uniquely identifies each vehicle from all other vehicles, and
• a camera for imaging the field of view of the camera;
• an environment for the plurality of vehicles to traverse, the environment includes a plurality of reconfigurable portions;
• a plurality of driver consoles, each driver console corresponds to one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, each driver console includes,
• a monitor for displaying the imaged field of view of the camera of the corresponding vehicle, and
• a control device for providing a driver-initiated control signal;
• and
• a control system communicatively coupled with the plurality of vehicles, the plurality of driver consoles, and the plurality of reconfigurable portions, the control system includes a plurality of detectors, each detector corresponds to one reconfigurable portion of the plurality of reconfigurable portions, a detector is configured to receive the identifier of a vehicle and to sense the vehicle, and the control system is programmed to compose, according to the received identifier, the sensing of the vehicle, and the driver-initiated control signal of the driver console that corresponds to the vehicle, the interactions among the vehicle, the driver console corresponding to the vehicle, and the reconfigurable portion that corresponds to the detector that received the identifier of the vehicle.