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Burning Man Festival Shows Up In Flight Simulator

Posted by simoniker on from the no-nudity-please-we're-aircraft-buffs dept.

Thanks to Wired News for their story revealing that fans of the Burning Man Festival have made a 3D version of the festival in Microsoft's Flight Simulator. According to the official Virtual Playa site, which houses this free add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and 2004, the project "is intended to be an open-ended project that invites participation at various levels... It can be downloaded for home use... or even be used as a design tool for... an artist wishing to show a preview of an installation before it ever gets to Black Rock City." The Wired article also notes that the creator "has built in several Burning Man-esque flying experiences [to Virtual Playa], among them a yellow submarine, a motorized couch and a rainbow-colored ultralight."

20 comments

  1. giant, naked by airuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please let me know when it renders the giant vehicles (and the naked people, too).

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    1. Re:giant, naked by pixel_bc · · Score: 1

      It already renders that big moving galleon. :)

  2. I wonder... by hookedup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the burning man pire was included. And if so, it is lit for the simulator? I'd assume you wouldn't be able to do 'live' fire in the sim though.

    1. Re:I wonder... by JofCoRe · · Score: 4, Informative

      Uhhh... yeah. RTFA... It says that the burning man pire is included, and users can set it ablaze as well. It also mentions that it's one of (if not the only) things that you can't crash into -- "out of reverence" for The Man :)

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    2. Re:I wonder... by hookedup · · Score: 1

      A neat, thanks. I dont go to any 'non-work' related sites besides slashdot. Give him my 'Interesting' points!

  3. Now when.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... can we drop this map into a FPS so we can frag the dirty hippies?

  4. Inaccuracy by b00m3rang · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the screenshots, you can't see the man or the road to the man nearly as well as you can in aerial photos of the actual event. You'd think a Burning Man simulation would at least show the man. And David Best's temple of the month.

  5. Re:So... by seanmeister · · Score: 1

    Not as slow as yesterday...

  6. Yes... by Walker2323 · · Score: 0

    But, does it simulate the smell of 3 days of hippies dancing?

  7. Holy crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Burning Man + flight sims = too much gayness to even begin to comprehend.

    1. Re:Holy crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      You're cute. I'd be your woman.

  8. Is It Available... by dupper · · Score: 1

    ...for Combat Flight Sim?

  9. Not very impressive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've taken a look and it doesn't seem very accurate at all.

    It doesn't even show all the naked women fainting due to drugs, alcohol, or heat exhaustion. Nor the leathery sunburned men groping them while they're passed out. How can it be Burning Man without gratuitous molestation of the unconscious?

    (Don't mod down, you know I'm telling the truth. You've seen it yourselves, unless you were completely stoned yourself.)

  10. allah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    flight sims?

    aren't those terrorism now?

    are they still allowed to make those things in the new world order?

  11. After two plane crashes... by g-san · · Score: 1

    maybe the trippers decided everyone needed some practice:

    Four injured in second small plane crash at Burning Man