Technical Feasibility

Having talked to a couple of guys at church about the feasibility of putting together a project like this, they agree that it's possible, but, to ultimately implement, will require a fair bit of cost (low-footprint motion sensors cost around $40 each), and a knowledge of programming microprocessors.

Ultimately, a grid of motion sensors could be arranged on a floor (or at alternate heights, depending on the type of obstacles we want to add) in order to be able to track the co-ordinates of the participant.

The co-ordinates could be determined by the programmable logic controllers (much like the circuitry of a modern keypad, I'm told), and feed the two two-digit values from a circuit board to the laptop's COM port via an RS232 connection.

Wow.

Then we'd have to write some C code on the laptop to be able to generate the visuals/audio based on the participant's current co-ordinates.

The beauty(?) of this arrangement would allow for a near-infinite possibile number of maze arrangements, simply by interpreting the co-ordinates around a different, super-imposed series of walls.

I am again reminded of the probability of NOT being able to create a life-size version of this project. We could easily demonstrate a mockup, maybe even create a table-top version using cut-down versions of the required hardware, but full-blown versions of the software and visuals/audio.