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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Sweet Christ by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-06 05:57 · Score: -1, Troll

I'm SO glad I don't pay to read this bullshit.
Cool by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-06 06:51 · Score: -1, Troll

Something to strafe.
M$ poopware by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-06 07:56 · Score: -1, Troll

Who cares about this!!!? Its for M$ Dudsimulator. The articles becoming advertisements for M$ here on slashdot?

Post a story when this is for an opensource free similutor, not shitty M$ crap.