Fellow folks,
Burningman is a festival of radical self expression held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert (or "playa") at the beginning of September. It is a beacon for some of the most amazing large scale artists in the world, and becomes the fifth largest city in Nevada, before it vanishes without a trace.

We have developed a project called the Virtual Playa Project. It is a complete scenery pack designed for Microsoft flight sim, and allows users to navigate the art and city of Burningman in great detail. It has recently been featured on CNN, Wired and Tech TV, and It may be the most fun scenery ever designed for flight sim.... and its FREE!!

Our experiment this year is to be running the project live from the desert each night between 9:00pm and midnight (maybe later!) form Monday29th August to Saturday 3rd September, and opening multiplayer rooms at zone.msn.com to allow anyone from anywhere in the world to join us for a guided tour.

You will first need to download and install the scenery pack from virtualplaya.org/ or you will only see blank desert!

If you are lucky enough to be on the playa, come by and see us in Centercamp & 3:30 and we will show you whats up.

If you want to participate in this experiment, please contact me at Andrew@virtualplaya.org so we can get everyone on the same page.
Thanks for your participation... See you in the desert!

Andrew Johnstone

virtualplaya.org/ (project site)
virtualplaya.tribe.net/ (tribe.net site)
Burningman.com (Burningman main site)