System and method for augmented maintenance of a gaming system

A method of enabling an augmented reality interaction system and a mobile device to overlay a virtual 3D component over a physical 3D component with which the virtual 3D component interacts, the method comprising:

• enabling a user to capture a live camera image of a 3D object via a camera on the mobile device;
• determining if there are image tags on the 3D object in the live camera image;
• in response to identifying images tags on the 3D object, producing a virtual rendering of the 3D object;
• determining virtual 3D components to be displayed over an image of a 3D object, wherein the virtual 3D components include a plurality of elements each having a depth value and the virtual 3D object includes a plurality of elements each having a depth value;
• comparing a virtual depth rendering of the virtual 3D components to a virtual depth rendering of the virtual 3D object;
• in response to the comparison, subtracting the elements of the virtual 3D components that have a lower depth value than elements of the virtual 3D object at corresponding spatial positions;
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• overlaying virtual 3D components without the subtracted elements onto a live camera image of the virtual 3D object on a display of the mobile device to produce augmented reality effects, wherein the virtual 3D components deliver targeted content to a user that assists in performing maintenance on the gaming machine.

A method of enabling a user in an augmented reality gaming venue to use an augmented reality system and a mobile device to display augmented reality by overlaying a virtual 3D object over a physical 3D object, the method comprising:

• enabling a user to capture a live camera image of a 3D object via camera on the mobile device;
• determining if there are image tags on the 3D object in the live camera image;
• using the one or more image tags to access information used by the augmented reality system;
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• overlaying virtual 3D objects onto a live camera image of the virtual 3D object on a display of the mobile device to produce augmented reality effects, wherein the virtual 3D objects deliver targeted content a user that assist in performing maintenance on the 3D object.