Virtual Studio · Vienna // Melbourne

How the Virtual Studio works

The Virtual Studio is a walk-through 3D model of the DISTANCE // ZERO television set. It runs live in your browser: every camera move, light and screen is drawn in real time, nothing is a video.

It is a preview. “Simulate on air” plays a full-screen simulation on the page; nothing is recorded or broadcast. The first show airs on 27 January 2027.

Moving around

• Camera ▾ in the bar at the bottom opens the list of shots; the button always shows the current one. The camera flies there smoothly and then drifts slowly, like a live director's shot.
• Light ▾ opens the four lighting looks. A choice, Esc or a click elsewhere closes either list.
• Look around: drag to orbit, pinch or scroll to zoom, two fingers or right-drag to pan.
• Tap an object to fly to it: the desk, a chair, the LED wall, the music station, a camera, the crane, or the backstage door.
• Auto camera lets the studio direct itself, cutting between shots every few seconds.

Key	Shot
1–9	Studio, Desk, Andy'K, Georgie, Video wall, Crane, Floor, Music, Piano
0	Guest: the special guest's chair, from camera 5
H	4K slow-mo: the picture from the camera robot as it flies its moves, with the whole studio at a fifth of its speed. Press again to watch the robot itself at work
B	Backstage: walk round the LED wall and into the lounge
S	Security: the camera where you are (studio or backstage); press again for the other
A · L · O	Auto camera · next lighting look · simulate on air

The set

A curved desk for the two hosts and their guest: DJ Andy'K (Andrej Kneisl) on the Vienna side, Georgie Walker on the Melbourne side, the guest in the middle. Behind them a curved LED wall with the hanging D//0 logo (the official artwork, cut out as solid letters ten centimetres deep), a light pylon for each city showing its local time, the DJ booth on the Melbourne side and a black concert grand on the Vienna side.

The lighting has four looks: Broadcast, Vienna (warm amber), Melbourne (cool ice blue) and Music. The studio listens: while music or the piano plays, the LED strips, beams and logo glow follow the sound.

Cameras

• Cameras 1–3: studio pedestals with teleprompters. Camera 1 holds Georgie, camera 3 holds Andy'K, camera 2 the whole desk.
• Camera 4: the jib on the crane, for the high angle.
• Camera 5: the guest's camera.
• Camera 6: a 4K high-speed camera on a motion-control robot arm that runs on a track in front of the desk. It flies a programme of moves (from the floor up over the desk, an arc from Vienna to Melbourne, low on the chairs, a swoop up to the logo) and films them in slow motion. Parked, it folds down at the Vienna end of its track.

Each camera has a red tally lamp that lights while its shot is “on air” in the simulation.

Backstage

Behind the LED wall is a small lounge: three armchairs, a coffee table with coffee and sekt, an espresso machine, a drinks fridge and an arc lamp. Four monitors carry live pictures from the studio cameras, as a real green room would. Three doors lead to the dressing rooms of Andrej, Georgie and the guest. To get there, tap the lit BACKSTAGE sign at the Vienna end of the LED wall (or press B): you walk there at eye level, round the end of the wall, along an amber line on the floor to the lounge door marked “No entry”, which opens as you come. Choose any studio shot to walk back out the same way.

Security cameras

Two small security cameras record all the time; their red lamp never goes out. SEC 1 hangs high on the Vienna-side wall and covers the whole studio. SEC 2 watches the dressing-room doors backstage. Their shots show what they see, as a recording: black and white, with the camera's name, REC and the time in Vienna. They are never part of the broadcast.

Music

The Music station plays the show's soundtrack, streamed from distancezeroshow.com, and a playable piano. The DJ Andy'K tab plays his releases straight from djandykofficial.com. Sound starts only when you press play, and when music starts the camera goes to the DJ booth.

The DJ booth: DJ Andy'K AKX 2026

The booth on the Melbourne side is the DJ Andy'K AKX 2026, software by Andy'K Music Lab: two media players with large jog wheels and tilted touch screens either side of a four-channel mixer carrying the DJ Andy'K logo. Open Music station → DJ booth to play it:

Control	What it does
Track	Any track of the soundtrack or of DJ Andy'K's releases, for each deck
▶ / ❚❚	Start or pause the deck. Its platter in the studio turns while it plays
CUE	While playing: back to the cue point and stop. While stopped: sets the cue point where the deck is
Channel	The deck's channel fader; in the studio, the mixer's channel 2 and 3 faders move with it
Crossfader	Blends Deck 1 into Deck 2; in the middle both play at full level

The full manual: DJ Andy'K AKX 2026 — Manual.

The lights and the LED wall follow the mix. Only one source plays at a time: starting the soundtrack stops the decks, starting a deck pauses the soundtrack, and the on-air simulation stops them.

Simulate on air

A full-screen simulation of a broadcast: the opener and logo video on the wall, then the show, with lower thirds, a ticker, jingles and the director's camera cuts. It is a demonstration only. The bar at the bottom works like the show's own control room:

• Camera ▾: Auto cameras (the director cuts) or any studio shot. Backstage and the security cameras are never on air.
• Light ▾: the four lighting looks.
• Videos ▾: the show's wall videos. As in the Broadcast Studio, each starts together with its jingle (marked ♪). The closings run on by themselves: Sunday show closing → official end credits → Thank you for watching, and Friday closing → Friday end credits. The partner spot for Andy'K Music Lab is here too.
• Jingles ▾: any jingle on its own, and Stop jingle.

Each button shows what is running. Esc closes an open list first, then ends the simulation.

On-air beacons: red rotating beacons, two on the floor either side of the stage and a small one over the backstage door. While the show is about to start (the countdown with the theme song) they turn slowly; in the last three seconds they flash three times, each flash with a tone; then the studio is on air and they turn bright until the simulation ends.

Technology and privacy

• Built with WebGL and three.js. The whole set is modelled in code: no downloaded 3D models; materials, textures and signs are generated in the browser.
• On slower devices the studio adapts itself (resolution, then effects) to keep moving smoothly. Phones and tablets get a lighter set.
• Made for current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on desktop and mobile.
• No sign-in, no cookies, no tracking, nothing stored on your device. The page loads only its own files, plus the music from distancezeroshow.com and djandykofficial.com when you play it.