Presenting autostereoscopic gaming content according to viewer position

A gaming system comprising:

• at least one input device configured to receive an indication of a wager to play a wagering game;
• an autostereoscopic display configured to display wagering game content for the wagering game;
• a position tracking device;
• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory device configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the gaming system to:
• determine, via scanning by the position tracking device, a position of a player in physical world space relative to a viewing surface of the autostereoscopic display, wherein the autostereoscopic display includes optical units on the viewing surface configured to project views of the wagering game content with an autostereoscopic, three-dimensional effect;
• determine a distance of the player from the autostereoscopic display, wherein the distance is perpendicular to both the position of the player and the autostereoscopic display;
• and
• repeat, for each one of the optical units associated with the wagering game content, operations configured to
• determine, via digital analysis of the position of the player, that one of the views projected by the one of the optical units has a viewing angle that is closer in distance to the position of the player than any other one of the views,
• after determining that the one of the views has the viewing angle that is closer in distance to the position of the player, automatically construct a virtual camera at a location in virtual world space that corresponds to the position of the player in the physical world space, and
• after automatically constructing the virtual camera, configure the virtual camera, according to the viewing angle, to render a portion of the wagering game content that corresponds to pixels of the autostereoscopic display associated with the one of the optical units based on the location of the virtual camera associated with the one of the views having the viewing angle that is closer in distance to the position of the player.

One or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a set of one or more processors of a gaming system cause the set of one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• determining, via scanning by a position tracking device of the gaming system, a position of a player in physical world space relative to a viewing surface of an autostereoscopic display, wherein the autostereoscopic display includes optical units on the viewing surface configured to project views of wagering game content with an autostereoscopic, three-dimensional effect;
• determining a distance of the player from the autostereoscopic display, wherein the distance is perpendicular to both the position of the player and the autostereoscopic display;
• positioning a virtual camera rig centered at a position in virtual world space relative to the position of the player in the physical world space, wherein the virtual camera rig includes virtual cameras;
• and
• repeating, for each one of the optical units associated with the wagering game content, operations for
• determining, via analysis of the position of the player, that one of the views projected by the one of the optical units has a viewing angle that aligns with one of the virtual cameras on the virtual camera rig, and
• configuring the one of the virtual cameras to render a portion of the wagering game content that corresponds to the one of the optical units based on the viewing angle of the one of the views.

A gaming apparatus comprising:

• at least one input device configured to receive an indication of a wager to play a wagering game;
• at least one autostereoscopic display device having optical units on a viewing surface configured to display views of wagering game content for the wagering game with an autostereoscopic three-dimensional effect using graphical autostereoscopic three-dimensional rendering of a three-dimensional world space;
• a position detection device;
• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory device configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the gaming apparatus to,
• determine, via scanning by the position detection device, a position of a player in physical world space at a distance from the viewing surface of the at least one autostereoscopic display device,
• determine, via analysis of the position of the player, that one of the views has a viewing angle that that is closer in distance to the position of the player in the physical world space than any other viewing angles of any other ones of the views,
• automatically construct a virtual camera at a position in virtual world space that corresponds to the position of the player in the physical world space for the graphical autostereoscopic three-dimensional rendering,
• graphically present perspective projected geometry on a first axis of three-dimensional projection space for a portion of the wagering game content that corresponds to pixels of the at least one autostereoscopic display associated with the one of the optical units based on the position of the virtual camera associated with the one of the views having the viewing that is closer in distance to the position of the player, and
• present, simultaneously, orthographic projected geometry for the portion of the wagering game content on a second axis of the three-dimensional projection space.

A gaming apparatus comprising:

• means for determining, via electronic scanning by a position detection device of the gaming apparatus, a position of a player in physical world space relative to a viewing surface of an autostereoscopic display, wherein the autostereoscopic display includes optical units on the viewing surface configured to project views of wagering game content with an autostereoscopic, three-dimensional effect;
• means for determining, via electronic analysis of the position of the player, a distance of the player from the autostereoscopic display, wherein the distance is perpendicular to both the position of the player and the autostereoscopic display;
• and
• means for repeating, for each one of the optical units associated with the wagering game content,
• means for determining, via digital analysis of the position of the player, that one of the views projected by the one of the optical units has a viewing angle that is closer in distance to the position of the player than any other viewing angles of any other ones of the views,
• means for automatically constructing a virtual camera at a location in virtual world space that corresponds to the position of the player in the physical world space at an intersection of a plane in a center of the one of the views and a line parallel to the top or bottom edge of the autostereoscopic display, and
• means for configuring the virtual camera to graphically render, according to the viewing angle, a portion of the wagering game content that corresponds to pixels of the autostereoscopic display associated with the one of the optical units based on the location of the virtual camera associated with the one of the views having the viewing angle that is closer in distance to the position of the player.