In the year 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Burning Man and many of its regional burns were forced to cancel leaving hundreds of thousands of burners without a way to gather and express themselves. A small group known as Black Rock City VR (BRCVR.org) ventured into the realms of virtual reality, found the platform AltspaceVR, and struck a deal between The BM Org and AltspaceVR to hold the world's first, fully sanctioned, fully realized VIRTUAL BURN!