You’ve wanted to engage in a lightsaber duel ever since you saw your first "Star Wars" film. Disney is building 14-acre Star Wars theme parks at Disney World and Disneyland, and its application last month for an “Audience Interaction Projection System” suggests that it plans to give visitors to the new parks a chance to operate what will look, feel and behave like real-life lightsabers. The process and system project visible light from a light source toward the device such that the light is precisely targeted at the device. Preferably the visible light passes through an atmosphere containing particulate matter rendering the visible light as a beam that appears to emanate from the device rather than from the light source." “We continuously innovate and file hundreds of patents that may or may not have any business unit application,” a Disney Parks representative told Gizmodo’s io9 blog.

Source: Fox News August 18, 2016 17:03 UTC