Education and demonstration – Vehicle operator instruction or testing
Patent
1997-12-31
2000-06-27
Martin-Wallace, Valencia
Education and demonstration
Vehicle operator instruction or testing
434 62, 434 30, 472 59, 472 60, G09B 902
Patent
active
06079982&
ABSTRACT:
A new interactive simulator ride for providing an entertaining interactive visual, audio, and motion simulation. The inventive device includes a guidance track comprised of a plurality of laterally spaced guidance rails, a simulator vehicle housing having an interior and having lateral side walls having a plurality of support wheels mounted thereon for supporting the simulator vehicle housing on the spaced guidance rails. A seat for seating by a person is provided within the interior of the simulator vehicle housing. A viewing screen is provided within the simulator vehicle housing interior for providing a computer generated visual image for viewing by a person located in the simulator housing. The invention also includes a projection means for projecting a computer generated visual image on the viewing screen, a means for providing computer generated visual images to the projection means, and a user input device. The input device provides input data from a person within the simulator vehicle housing to the computer generated visual images providing means. The input data represents a reaction to the visual images which the computer generated visual images providing means uses to modify the displayed visual images accordingly. Preferably, the projection means, the computer generated visual images providing means are provided within a multimedia computer included within the simulator vehicle housing.
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A brochure from Virtual Coasters Company, 11407 Clover Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90066, 7 pages, copyright date 1997.
Fleming David Aaron
Martin-Wallace Valencia
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