Disney Dream Has Kids-Only Magic PlayFloor

This article comes to us from AOL.

Remember when youth counselors used to have kids sit in a circle and listen to a book? Well that’s probably not the option the kids will choose on the new 4,000-passenger Disney Dream.

The ship, Disney Cruise Line’s first new-build in more than a decade, has something so much more fun — a Magic PlayFloor that combines storytelling with high tech, interactive gaming, in a cruise industry first.

We’re talking a giant grid, 28 HD panels surrounded by 16 LED sensors, embedded in the floor where your foot movements control the action.

AOL Travel News got an exclusive opportunity to try out the interactive floor on a visit to top-secret Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale California, where Imagineers are creating a whole bunch of brand-new showstoppers for the ship.

A prediction here: parents will wish this particular offering — located in the Oceaneers Lab and Oceaneers Club children’s program areas — was not kids-only.

Some of the games are designed to be highly interactive, like video games where kids control the animation they’re seeing. Others are slightly less so — “jumping rope” over an image projected on the floor, for instance.

Dean Orion, a show producer, showed us how the Magic PlayFloor works as it was being tested in a warehouse on the Imagineering campus.

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