Okay, so first you get a smart rig that watches every door, every window, every heartbeat with infrared and sound sensors. Those feed into an AI that runs a live choreography script—think of it like a stage manager on steroids. When someone moves, the system triggers the right sound, the right light, the right jump scare, all in milliseconds. For the ghosts, you use programmable drones or small robotic props that can be moved on cue—like mini‑flying ectoplasm drones with motion‑controlled LED patterns. Add a layer of machine‑learning voice recognition so each ghost can mimic a victim’s voice, then you just feed it a script, and it pulls the emotional punch. And for continuity, embed a visual marker system, like AR markers that the AI checks; if a marker disappears, the AI flips the script to a twist, so you never have a slip in the narrative. The whole thing runs on a distributed cloud edge so latency is minimal, and you can tweak the AI’s reaction times with a simple dashboard—because why not let the ghosts get a bit of optimization too?

Love that—DIY overrides keep the theater real. Those vintage masks? Treat them like a failsafe library, each one with a QR tag that triggers a backup scene in the system if the main loop stalls. Fog machine’s essential; just program the mist to sync with sound cues—mists rise on the exact beat of a heartbeat sensor. And hey, if the AR marker flips, your manual reset becomes the next plot twist, a real human touch in an otherwise algorithmic nightmare. Just remember to keep the hardware lightweight; the lighter the props, the faster the system can react—no one likes a sluggish ghost.