The Connect & Produce Anywhere project is one of the eight Challenges in this year's cohort for the IBC2023 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by DAZN, Sky Sports, BT Media & Broadcast, Vodafone Group, BBC, TV2, and the participants are LAMA, VizRT, Open Broadcast Systems, Zixi, InSync, Limitless, Singular.live, Google, Techex, Microsoft, AMD, Grass Valley and Verizon Business.
The Challenge
The specific challenge as stated on the project site is:
We’re starting to see a future where instead of driving big metal hardware up a motorway, we can click a mouse to virtually move a vision mixer to the cloud or edge compute at an event, allowing us to virtually deploy resources anywhere that best fit any given production.
Detaching people from the event location brought us the remote production. In this project, we want to detach software from hardware and deploy a distributed computing architecture between ground and cloud, exploring the benefits & challenges of such an approach.
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