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Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:18 am
While many developer conferences and trade shows have had to be held on Zoom during the pandemic, many elements of the Burning Man experience simply can’t be replicated online. The developers behind the virtual event are determined to reimagine social media so that attendees can make lots of new friends this year, just as they always do.
“It’s not easy to recreate the sense of excitement and venezuela number data scale,” says Ed Cook, who creates one of the official apps. “Also, at Burning Man, it’s not just what happens at the festival itself that matters, but also everything that comes before it.”
Cook developed SparkleVerse with his friend Chris Adams, a senior software manager at Airbnb. Their app, which combines a 2D map interface with video chat windows, is primarily focused on communication.
During the quarantine, they had fun designing very complex video chats for their friends. Examples include a special environment for a party dedicated to the Moon, for which they created an interactive map of the lunar surface. About 200 participants went through 16 independent virtual spaces, each of which was dedicated to a separate topic. Before the event, the hosts introduced people to the “experience of traveling to the Moon”: they recreated the effect of weightlessness and advised guests to play along with this experience. At another party dedicated to a jacuzzi, guests had to soak in a bathtub before launching Zoom.
of these mechanisms in their work on Burning Man, hoping that elements of immersive theater will allow people to have a deeper experience. Cook says that the long hours driving to the festival site, the lack of communication, fatigue, and hunger add “space in the mind” that allows people to act more freely. He wants participants to try to recreate this experience in whatever way they can: spending hours on a video chat that simulates a desert trip, setting up a tent in their living room, or turning off the water and not showering for nine days.
“It’s not easy to recreate the sense of excitement and venezuela number data scale,” says Ed Cook, who creates one of the official apps. “Also, at Burning Man, it’s not just what happens at the festival itself that matters, but also everything that comes before it.”
Cook developed SparkleVerse with his friend Chris Adams, a senior software manager at Airbnb. Their app, which combines a 2D map interface with video chat windows, is primarily focused on communication.
During the quarantine, they had fun designing very complex video chats for their friends. Examples include a special environment for a party dedicated to the Moon, for which they created an interactive map of the lunar surface. About 200 participants went through 16 independent virtual spaces, each of which was dedicated to a separate topic. Before the event, the hosts introduced people to the “experience of traveling to the Moon”: they recreated the effect of weightlessness and advised guests to play along with this experience. At another party dedicated to a jacuzzi, guests had to soak in a bathtub before launching Zoom.
of these mechanisms in their work on Burning Man, hoping that elements of immersive theater will allow people to have a deeper experience. Cook says that the long hours driving to the festival site, the lack of communication, fatigue, and hunger add “space in the mind” that allows people to act more freely. He wants participants to try to recreate this experience in whatever way they can: spending hours on a video chat that simulates a desert trip, setting up a tent in their living room, or turning off the water and not showering for nine days.