Burning Man Festival Shows Up In Flight Simulator

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday January 6, 2004 @04:41AM 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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Re:I wonder... by JofCoRe · 2004-01-06 05:41 · 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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