Transmissive Slot Machines

WMS has a new technology that they call Transmissive Reels – and it makes for one interesting slot machine. At the Global Gaming Expo, WMS unveiled a line of slot machines with technology so advanced you know competitors were jealous. Reels instead of video screens – unheard of in slot machine territory!

WMS brought out their revolutionary technology at the expo to show people that they are still a driving force in slot machines. They had Monopoly Super Grab which was unlike anything anyone had seen before in slot machines. On the slot machine screen there is Mr. Monopoly walking his dog – basically a little scenery on the glass in front of the reels. However, once the slot machine player advances to the bonus round, the reels darken and the glass becomes a full video touch screen. It is completely interactive for the slot machine player with rich graphics to behold.

This is not the first time someone has tried to change slot machines to video experience over reel spinning bases. Anchor Gaming created the slot machine Wheel of Gold, International Game Technology created Wheel of Fortune and WMS added bonus events with Dotmation screens. Other slot machine manufacturers like Bally Technologies tried to put together video bonus and three reel play by adding full video screens.

However, with transmissive reel slot machines, WMS melds reels and video bonuses into one package that works beautifully. When faced with problems with the old slot machines and their gaming platforms five years ago – WMS had to create something that they could be proud of as well as herald their return to the slot machine world. They needed to get people to trust their slot machine products again, and thus transmissives were born.

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