Here me out: A theme park where you are given a persistent identity Ala Nostr that you activate when you enter each time, you equip AR glasses and the entire theme park is an RPG with quests and levels and skills, etc., and every time you come to the park you can pick up where you left off on the “main quest” where side quests change, etc., and there is a market for items that you can trade amongst other players just like an MMORPG. Like Pokemon Go with a richer environment with rides and shit. Hot Dogs and Soda as well of course.
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I dig. Instead of physical decorations,its all AR.
There should be both like Disney Land but a layer 2 on top of it for interactive, personalized environments, and magic and shit.
I imagine there being a moderated PVP aspect to it as well but AR-governed rules that prevent people from getting within physical reach of each other so when people rage quit they dont punch a child.
I've often wanted to punch a child in a theme park. The one I worked in. Social distancing < self control
I imagine the belligerents would be separated by plexiglass and enter and exit the arena from faction based door limiting interactions. It’s a WIP but this would be An amazing thing. Imagine if the theme park also had a fully virtual location on your pc or console or mobile where you could do tedious shit in advance of your visits to the park.
Use all the defunct big box stores and build cheap structures inside and paint them in AR
Man invented west world
You can’t fuck the robots. But ya we need this kind of place. Imagine all the gamers out there that would just love a meatspace place like this?
I did laser tag at the Mall of America a few years back and it was incredible even without AR. You could play any Call of Duty or Halo game mode IRL, use multiple gun types by pressing a button on the rifle, pick up powerups in the arena, call in killstreak rewards, and track your game stats via a giant leaderboard. It was a next level experience. AR would make it unbelievable.
And they dropped real hot dogs when you got a kill
Listen, I want first blood hot dog rewards, but we need to move slowly here. Imagine the mountains of money that would flood in. Hogwarts RPG was a huge sell on PC/console imagine if they gave you the ability to be a fuckin’ wizard while at Disney land with all of the micro transactions and incremental progress to keep you in the park all fucking day. Trading legendary rare drops for hot dog tokens because you’re starving and already spent $400 on spell augments.
The money would be overwhelming.
ok we can table the hot dogs til Phase II
Aww you mean call of duty VR
sounds cool but would get abused by park management for sure, milked to the max
you're just trying to re-create the UO buzz of your youth