It was only a couple of weeks before thousands would gather to co-create the physical Black Rock City when we got the call: “So… we have a new project and we need a hand… can you make it to Burning Man this year?” Oh boy…

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For AWE 2022, we got on the main stage for the MetaTr@versal: A Day in the Life play! Additionally, Christi joined a panel to talk about immersive storytelling. We also joined a group of educators to tour the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and the Santa Clara University Imaginarium. Then, we had a big AWE Afterparty with tech demos at our MetaVilla Airbnb.

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We worked with author Helen Lundström Erwin to build out the café depicted in her historic novel, Sour Milk in Sheep’s Wool. Throughout the build process, we sent pictures back and forth with Helen and met up with her in VR to review details. She wanted to accurately capture the historical details – and so did we!

This post is about the behind-the-scenes design process.

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There is something intrinsically special about experiences that are situated within a spatial context. Whether it’s a group meetup, training simulation, or simply a journey to find creative inspiration, having a sense of spatial presence gives our minds more contextual cues to reference and draw upon later- making it easier to retrieve memories from our experiences.

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We are finally back home and rested enough to begin recounting our recent adventure across the country to the 2021 Augmented World Expo in San Jose, California. However before we get into stories from the expo itself I really wanted to share this story from our initial trip out there. We had a little situation happen which might give you a good chuckle!

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