How do you explain Black Rock City to someone who has never been? You bring them there.

BurnerSphere is an official virtual Burning Man experience, created in collaboration with Burning Man Project. No headset needed: participants explore art, camps, and gatherings together in real time from a VR headset or a desktop. It started in 2020 on AltspaceVR. When that platform sunset in 2023, we went looking for a new home and decided we needed to build our own: a home for Burners, by Burners.

In this session, we’ll bring BurnerSphere into the room with a live demonstration. Then we’ll go behind the scenes: what we film on playa, how we capture art installations, and how those captures become worlds you can walk through together. You’ll see how passive viewership turns into story living.

We’ll also look at BurnerSphere as an educational tool. For your first-timers and anyone curious about making the trip to the big burn, it’s a way to feel the scale of the city, meet the art, and get a sense of the culture and the 10 Principles before they ever pack a dust mask. We’ll close with an open conversation about what BurnerSphere could mean for regional communities, and we want to hear your ideas.

Come take a stroll in the digital dust.