This enabled the Abbey Road engineers to give the group a virtual multi-track studio.
The channel also employs user-generated broadcasting by allowing users to build their own shows which are broadcast within the channels live virtual studio.
This is what differentiates a virtual studio from the traditional technique of chromakey.
A virtual studio does not need any post production because it is in real-time.
There exist many technical solutions for creating virtual studios, but most of them include the following components:
(This is a list of shows made with its virtual studio)
The current Automated service is done in the virtual studio that the live show is from.
ZDF now broadcasts from Europe's largest and most advanced virtual studio.
Since 21 July 2008, the programme has been made completely in a "virtual studio".
Mr. Neulight added that they want their company to become a kind of virtual studio to the independent-film world.