Augmented Reality Gaming Eyewear Spatial Content Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces a challenge in providing engaging and entertaining content beyond traditional display limitations, necessitating innovative methods to present wagering game content in a more immersive and interactive manner.
Innovation Solution
The use of gaming eyewear that overlays virtual content onto real-world objects, allowing players to experience augmented reality by projecting virtual images related to the gaming environment, enhancing the gaming experience through spatially associated and interactive virtual elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional displays are used to present wagering game content, then the presentation is simple and reliable, but the content presentation is limited in spatial integration and immersion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D display screens to 3D spatial augmented reality presentation. Virtual wagering game content is overlaid onto the physical casino environment, allowing content to be displayed in multiple spatial dimensions and locations simultaneously, greatly expanding presentation capability without adding more physical displays
Solution Approach 2:
The augmented reality system serves multiple functions: it presents wagering game content, provides spatial integration with the casino environment, enables interactive gameplay, and delivers immersive entertainment. A single AR system replaces what would traditionally require multiple separate display devices and entertainment systems
2Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality eyewear is implemented to overlay virtual content, then player engagement and immersion are significantly enhanced, but device complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces augmented reality eyewear as an intermediary device between the player and the casino environment. The eyewear overlays virtual wagering game content onto the real-world view, mediating the interaction between the player and the gaming system while maintaining spatial context and immersion without requiring complex head-mounted displays or virtual reality equipment
3Adaptability or versatility
If virtual content is spatially integrated with real-world objects, then immersion and interactivity are improved, but measurement and detection difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical and optical display systems with electronic and software-based augmented reality systems. Computer vision algorithms and image processing techniques are used to detect and track real-world objects, replacing the need for physical markers or complex mechanical positioning systems that would be required for spatial integration
Data Source
AI summary
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include detecting initiation of a wagering game and determining, in response to the detecting the initiation of the wagering game, first content and second content to present for the wagering game. The operations can further include providing the first content for presentation on a display device, the first content being viewable through the gaming eyewear, and providing the second content for presentation as a virtual image via the gaming eyewear.