How does OCR work in live casino? What the documents show
OCR in live casino, traced from the ranking explainers to a roulette patent filing and a security guide: what is read from the camera, and for which games.
Studios
What is a game control unit in live casino?
The GCU as ranking explainers define it, and the result-capture chain around it, traced through two roulette patent filings and a security guide.
What equipment does a live casino studio need?
The table-side and broadcast kit a live casino studio runs on, with layouts, bar-coded cards, wheels and shoes read from manufacturers' own pages.
How many staff does a live casino studio need?
Two suppliers' own people-and-tables figures give about 11 to 15 staff per live table. The sources, the arithmetic and the roles, read from supplier pages.
How long does it take to build a live casino studio?
Three named live studio projects dated from suppliers' own releases: what the announcement-to-opening clock shows, and where the record is silent.
Dedicated live casino table vs shared table: the trade view
Who carries the capex, who gets the branding, and the occupancy arithmetic that decides when an operator moves from a shared table to a dedicated one.
How much does it cost to build a live casino studio?
No per-table price appears in the sources we read: Evolution's H1 2026 release, Pragmatic Play's $15m Bogotá announcement and Kerma's posting.
Trivelta buys Kerma Games, which is still hiring for a new live studio
Trivelta's chief executive files the live casino studio under 'an ambitious product roadmap'; Kerma's own job board is recruiting a live game presenter in Monterrey for a new four-table studio. Terms undisclosed.
Jungle Trail Roulette 2000x against Maxima Roulette 4444x: two more roulettes on Amusnet's roulette shelf
Amusnet's live catalogue runs to 32 titles, 27 of them roulette, with live blackjack still under Coming Soon. Against that shelf August's two releases are routine — except for one line neither release makes anything of: on the Romanian table, Amusnet did not run the room.
Awager puts 50 streamed slot cabinets onto BetMGM in New Jersey
Aristocrat's streaming arm has gone live with BetMGM and Borgata Online, serving 50 physical cabinets and 30-plus titles over 4K video. The trade question is not the title count but the number nobody has published: how many players one cabinet takes at once.
Pragmatic Play Live's expansion, assessed
The studio build-out read as a competitive story: what the company has said it is shipping, what the multi-vertical bundle is worth to operators, and why catching the live leader is priced in studio floors and presenter shifts.