Remote production was the liveliest sector seen at IBC 2023, buoyed in recent years by the increasing interest in cost-effective cloud strategies and environmental concerns. The field was, of course, launched into the stratosphere by the covid pandemic, and that momentum has continued apace. As per tradition, the ProAV (professional audio-visual) vendors were largely confined to their own halls, meaning that – from Faultline’s perspective – remote and virtual production sightings were at large booths, rubbing shoulders with the big boys in our industry. Zero Density, a Turkish firm that provides real-time visual effects and virtual backdrops via its Reality Engine software, based on the Unreal Engine, had a booth packed with demonstrations – and queues of visitors waiting to…