Patent ID: 8206219

Claim:
A method of playing an interactive computer game, comprising: donning an article of wear, the article of wear substantially permanently displaying one or more tracking marks that can be recognized by the interactive game, wherein at least one of the one or more tracking marks is knitted or woven into a material from which the article of wear is produced; playing the interactive game by wearing the article of wear so that the interactive game recognizes at least one of the one or more tracking marks displayed by the article of wear; wherein at least one of the one or more tracking marks conveys qualitative information to the interactive computer game as a result of motion of at least one of the one or more tracking marks; wherein the qualitative information is interpreted by the interactive computer game as instruction; and wherein the instruction includes a member selected from the group of: an instruction to turn off the game, an instruction to change a type or characteristic of the game, and an instruction to input alphanumeric information.