Oliver Lietz, CEO and founder of nanocosmos, elaborates on how the studio is focused on unlocking the next generation of live casinos.
Building professional live video environments used to mean expensive studios, complex hardware, and studio production time. For providers serving multiple operators, every new branded table, market-specific design, or VIP environment adds cost, complexity, and pressure on studio space. As the number of operator brands grows, so does the production footprint.
Cloud-based chroma key removes most of that equation. For iGaming, it is now a real-time production tool that can turn one live casino feed into multiple branded environments.
A live casino dealer in a simple studio in Malta can appear live inside any branded casino environment: a beachside resort in the Philippines, a private VIP room, a sleek penthouse in Monte Carlo.
Each operator gets their own look from the same live production. Background replacement no longer needs to happen in the studio. One live feed becomes multiple branded streams in real time. One ingest, one table. Unlimited backgrounds and brands, delivered live worldwide.
Where chroma key transforms real-time video for iGaming
For live casino operators and the game providers serving them, cloud-based chroma key opens up possibilities that were not viable before. Traditionally, providers operate a single physical studio setup: a dealer at a table, a green-screen backdrop behind them, and a single production workflow serving multiple operator brands simultaneously. In most cases, this meant every operator received the same visual environment, with little room for differentiation.
Cloud-based chroma key, available in the nanocosmos platform via nanoStudio, changes that model entirely. Instead of generating a single visual output, providers can now create multiple fully branded environments from the same live ingest.
A single baccarat table can instantly become ten distinct branded experiences for ten different operators without rebuilding studios, changing production workflows, or duplicating infrastructure. The physical setup remains the same, while the branded outputs are generated dynamically on the server side.
For operators, this creates new opportunities to make the visual experience more dynamic and contextual. nanoStudio cloud-based chroma key is built for ultra-low-latency streaming, environments can adapt in real time without disrupting gameplay or interaction between player and dealer. Backgrounds can change to reflect tournament progress, highlight top players, support seasonal campaigns, or align with regional branding strategies instantly.
This is where chroma key evolves from a production feature into a scalable business capability. Providers can offer branded environments as an additional service layer, while operators gain immersive and differentiated experiences that support engagement and retention. All without adding production overhead or compromising ultra-low-latency performance with Media over QUIC (MOQ).
The commercial value
For live casino providers, the cloud-based chroma key available on the nanocosmos platform turns the traditional chroma key from a visual effect into a multi-brand commercial production tool that helps providers expand their branded table portfolio without expanding the studio footprint at the same pace.
Cloud-nased chroma key: how it works
Chroma key is a well-established production technique that removes a specific background color, typically green or blue, and replaces it with a digital image or virtual environment.
Green and blue work because they are visually distinct from most human skin tones, but a clean result still depends on good lighting, accurate color separation, and careful edge handling. The broadcast and film industries have used it for decades.
The cloud-based chroma key moves the compositing step out of the studio and into the cloud. Instead of completing background removal on-site using dedicated hardware, the studio sends the live feed with the green screen still intact. Background removal and replacement happen server-side, inside the nanocosmos platform workflow, before the final stream reaches viewers.
From a single ingest, the platform generates multiple branded outputs in parallel. Each operator receives a dedicated live casino environment while the physical studio, presenter, camera setup, and source stream remain the same.
The process on the nanocosmos platform works like this:
- A presenter, dealer, or host is in front of a green screen.
- The live feed is ingested once into the platform.
- The system detects the chroma background and creates a clean cut-out of the subject.
- Multiple branded backgrounds or virtual environments are applied in the cloud.
- Each output is delivered as a polished, low-latency, operator-specific live stream.
You can test the Cloud-Based Chroma Key here
The benefits of cloud-based chroma key
- Faster operator onboarding: launching new branded environments is quicker without rebuilding the studio or adding dedicated hardware for every operator.
- More scalable branded table portfolios: providers can support more operator-specific environments from the same physical production space.
- Lower production complexity: server-side compositing reduces the need for duplicated local workflows, extra keying hardware, and complex on-site configuration.
- Less downtime: because the visual environment is server-side, providers can add or update branded outputs without interrupting the live studio workflow.
- More flexible customisation: different operators, markets, campaigns, or VIP segments can receive different visual experiences from the same source stream.
Why latency is the real variable
In a live dealer game, that constraint is the whole game. A roulette ball in motion, a card being dealt, a bet window closing: these happen in a precise temporal window. A few seconds of delay and the experience collapses. Betting windows close before anyone can act. The sense of shared, real-time play disappears.
This is why ultra-low latency delivery is foundational for live casino streaming, and why technologies such as MOQ are becoming increasingly relevant for the future of real-time video transport.
A chroma key compositing step between capture and delivery is another place where latency can accumulate. The right infrastructure treats chroma key processing and video delivery as parts of the same pipeline. Not separate steps that happen to connect.
The platform behind it
nanocosmos platform is a real-time video platform developed as a complete ecosystem for live streaming: ultra-low latency delivery with MOQ, stream security, analytics and cloud production tools like cloud-based chroma key. This way, operators do not have to stitch together separate tools. It runs as one workflow.
The cloud-based chroma key runs inside nanoStudio, the production core of the nanocosmos platform.
The technology behind the chroma key is not new. What is new is where it runs, how consistently it scales, and how tightly it integrates with the rest of the infrastructure the business already depends on.
