A ride vehicle includes a platform including a front portion and a rear portion. The ride vehicle also includes a row of seats disposed on the platform. Each seat of the first row of seats is configured so a passenger loads from the rear and once seated the passenger faces the front portion. The ride vehicle is configured so that each passenger enters the ride vehicle via the rear portion.

A ride vehicle includes a platform including a front portion and a rear portion. The ride vehicle also includes a row of seats disposed on the platform. Each seat of the first row of seats is configured so a passenger loads from the rear and once seated the passenger faces the front portion. The ride vehicle is configured so that each passenger enters the ride vehicle via the rear portion.

Touring circuitry for managing an immersion tour as a vehicle traverses a path through a touring theatre receives location information and provides control signals to an augmented-reality system based on a location of the vehicle in the touring theater. The control signals cause the augmented-reality system to stimulate at least two sensory inputs of a passenger.

A seat moving machine comprises a passenger seat assembly disposed in between opposing seat supports which raise and lower the passenger seat assembly. One or more passenger seat beam rotators are operative to rotate the passenger seat assembly to change the pitch independently of the raising and lowering. In embodiments, rather that the seat rows being pivoted up with a rotating floor, a rotate function alters their mutual positions to one another while the lift function is taking place which brings the back seat rows up and over the front seat rows, allowing control over mutual row position during lift and in the show. Though no cables are involved, by combining the motions of lift and rotate and without any further equipment, an immersive theater system comprising the seat moving machine still employs seating that is suspended.

A seat moving machine comprises a passenger seat assembly disposed in between opposing seat supports which raise and lower the passenger seat assembly. One or more passenger seat beam rotators are operative to rotate the passenger seat assembly to change the pitch independently of the raising and lowering. In embodiments, rather that the seat rows being pivoted up with a rotating floor, a rotate function alters their mutual positions to one another while the lift function is taking place which brings the back seat rows up and over the front seat rows, allowing control over mutual row position during lift and in the show. Though no cables are involved, by combining the motions of lift and rotate and without any further equipment, an immersive theater system comprising the seat moving machine still employs seating that is suspended.

A flying theater motion base is implemented using one or more rows of seats pivotably connected to an end of a pivot structure about respective pitch axes, which is in turn pivotably supported over an underlying surface by a support structure about a pivot axis. One or more pivot drives are operable to pivot the pivot structure about the pivot axis to both move the rows of seats between a load/unload position adjacent the underlying surface and a show position elevated in front of a viewing area, and, while in the show position, simulate a heave motion by further pivoting the pivot structure about the pivot axis. One or more pitch drives adjust the pitch of the rows or seats about the pitch axes. The rows include canopies pivotably connected thereabove.

A flying theater motion base is implemented using one or more rows of seats pivotably connected to an end of a pivot structure about respective pitch axes, which is in turn pivotably supported over an underlying surface by a support structure about a pivot axis. One or more pivot drives are operable to pivot the pivot structure about the pivot axis to both move the rows of seats between a load/unload position adjacent the underlying surface and a show position elevated in front of a viewing area, and, while in the show position, simulate a heave motion by further pivoting the pivot structure about the pivot axis. One or more pitch drives adjust the pitch of the rows or seats about the pitch axes. The rows include canopies pivotably connected thereabove.

The present invention relates to automated guided vehicles, hereinafter referred to as AGVs, and specifically to AGVs used for entertainment purposes. More specifically, the present invention relates to using in a passenger carrying AGV a capacitor or a plurality of capacitors as a power source.

A gap blocking system includes a loading platform having a gap separating a first portion of the loading platform from a second portion of the loading platform. A ride vehicle is coupled to a transport extending through the gap. The gap blocking system also includes a panel assembly coupled to the loading platform and comprising a plurality of panels, wherein each panel of the plurality of panels is coupled to a respective biasing mechanism coupled to the first portion of the loading platform and configured to bias each panel towards a closed configuration in which each panel extends radially away from the first portion of the loading platform.

An automated damping system including a damping device arranged and disposed to provide variable resistance to a load. The variable resistance provides resistance values corresponding to a displacement position of the damping device. The system includes a damping profile generator that calculates a damping profile and a sensor is arranged and disposed to measure one or more damping affecting properties. The sensor provides the one or more damping affecting properties to the damping profile generator. The damping profile provides the variable resistance based upon the one or more damping affecting properties of the load.