To add to what I stated in my first post, I am a New Media student at the University of Maine, and this is my final year of school.
Every senior in New Media is required to do a Capstone (senior project). I have chosen to work collaboratively with Steve Talbot, whose blog can be viewed here: stephent.nmdprojects.net/capstone
Our goal is to create an interactive exhibit in which the user can play a game using alternative controlling methods. Ideally, an omni-directional treadmill and gesture recognition. This along with virtual reality glasses of some sort would provide a totally immersive game experience. It is our hope that we can achieve something along those lines one way or another, and our game of choice to use would be Minecraft.