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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."

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

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