Patent ID: 9619961
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A63F,G02B,G07F

Claim:
1. A method of operating a wagering game machine, said method comprising: detecting, by at least one of one or more electronic processing units of the wagering game machine, a first non-winning game condition in a wagering game presented via an autostereoscopic display device of the wagering game machine, wherein the wagering game includes virtual game symbols used for presentation of wagering game outcomes for the wagering game, wherein the wagering game machine includes a value input device configured to receive physical money, and wherein the wagering game machine is further configured to, in response to receiving the physical money via the value input device, increase a credit balance of the wagering game machine for placement of one or more wagers on the wagering game; automatically determining, a first significance level from a plurality of significance levels associated with a first of the virtual game symbols, wherein the first significance level is associated with the first non-winning game condition; electronically presenting for the first non-winning game condition, via the autostereoscopic display device, the first of the virtual game symbols with a first non-zero, autostereoscopic depth level that corresponds to the first significance level; detecting, by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units, a second non-winning game condition in the wagering game different from the first non-winning game condition; automatically determining a second significance level from the plurality of significance levels associated with the first of the virtual game symbols, wherein the second significance level is associated with the second non-winning game condition, and wherein the second significance level is different from the first significance level; and electronically presenting, for the second non-winning game condition via the autostereoscopic display device, the first of the virtual game symbols with a second non-zero, autostereoscopic depth level that corresponds to the second significance level, wherein the second non-zero, autostereoscopic depth level is different from the first non-zero, autostereoscopic depth level.