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THE GREAT BUILD TOUR
EXPLORING THE BURNERSPHERE BUILD-A-THON CREATIONS

Thu November 12, 2026 05:00 pm CET

Three days of building on Burning Man’s virtual Playa. What did the IMMERSIVE X community create?

Throughout the festival, teams of Metanauts have been imagining, building, and evolving their own camps in BurnerSphere – transforming a piece of the virtual Playa into spaces of their own.

Now Athena Demos and Doug Jacobsen lead the community on a world hop through the creations of the BurnerSphere Build-a-Thon. Visit the camps, meet their builders, and discover how different teams used the same no-code tools to create entirely different places, ideas, and experiences.

Part showcase, part world tour, and part community celebration, The Great Build Tour brings Burning Man’s participatory principle full circle: don’t just visit the Playa – help create it.

You don’t need to have participated in the Build-a-Thon to join the tour.

Format

World Hop

App

BurnerSphere

Duration

45 min

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Presenter

Athena Demos
Co-founder and CEO at Big Rock Creative

Athena Demos is co-founder and CEO of Big Rock Creative (BRC), an award-winning XR experience company specialising in innovative Social VR and Metaverse projects. She produced BRCvr presents BurnerSphere, an official virtual Burning Man experience, and social impact VR projects such as Breonna’s Garden and Pride Has No Borders. With a focus on creative collaboration in the Metaverse, Athena speaks globally about its potential and continues to pioneer immersive storytelling formats.

Doug Jacobson
Co-founder of Big Rock Creative

Doug Jacobson is an award-winning director and producer of immersive experiences, specializing in immersive storytelling across XR and social VR. As co-founder of Big Rock Creative, he has helmed some of the most ambitious projects in the space — from BRCvr, the fully immersive social VR recreation of Burning Man that debuted in 2020 and was featured in Wired, to BurnerSphere — their latest project, which just won Best Experience of the Year from the Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences.

 

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