Sign up to enjoy this week-long post-apocalypse-themed VR sex camp.
Since its founding back in 1986 in Black Rock City, Nevada. every year a madly diverse crowd of artists, architects, fashion designers—or just folx wanting to get their flamboyant hedonism on—have gathered together to light up a towering monument to self-expression.
Then COVID-19 happened.
But not even a dangerous pathogen was going to stop the spirit of Burning Man, so the organizers took everything that made it great and went virtual.
Still, that wasn’t enough for the organizers of one special camp, who for an entire week is turning its digital corner of Burning Man into CYBER DREAMS: a post-apocalyptic sex-positive future packed with musicians, erotic performers, social get-togethers, interactive entertainments, and a whole lot more.
Voyage to cybersex future
The event is hosted by UK-based Raspberry Dream Labs, a sex tech group that regularly organizes multi-media/multi-sensory cyber sex event. Raspberry Dream Labs describes its particular slice of the new VR Burning Man as:
{CYBER DREAMS} not only celebrates sexuality of all forms and types but also unites art, technology and sustainability, as, in our vision of the cybersex future, there is no separation between these.
From when it launches August 30 until the sun sets on the camp on September 6, Raspberry Dream Labs founder Angelina Aleksandrovich promises a non-stop parade of imaginatively arousing entertainment possibilities.
On the music side alone, CYBER DREAMS has over a dozen DJs ready to spin their digital vinyl on the camp’s virtual dancefloors, including Samantha Togni, COSMiC CAZ, Hidden Element, Torture And The Desert Spiders, Genese Trepas, Wonkanhof, and Gigabitch.
If visual artists are your thing, then CYBER DREAMS has got you covered there as well with AMIANGELIKA, Onionlab, Benjamin Giubarelli, State On Demand, and far, far more set to dazzle your eyes as well as your ears.
More than Burning Man online
If this is all sounding a bit too pre-2020 Burning Man, even though this time the experience may be through a laptop or VR rig, then pshaw to you!
The live performances will be a stage so outrageously sci-fi it never could exist in real life, even at Burning Man. Compliments of 3axis Studio and Original Elephant, who specialize in making unique digital spaces.
The technofetishistic delights don’t stop there, as over in the gallery section of CYBER DREAMS Oliver Gingrich has 3D brainwave images recorded during intimate activities, anthr0morph and Ryan Burke present self-portraits with a transhumanist twist, and Jason Ebeyer dazzles with his ultra-sensual art pieces.
And here’s something that’ll assuredly make Future of Sex readers prick up their ears—if they haven’t already, that is—as Thomas Harrington Rawle and Touchy-Feely will be unveiling an extremely unique approach to sex toy design.
Unique because, according to these artists, they didn’t do the designing: an artificial intelligence did.
Get your avatar’s groove on
If Burning Man’s anything it’s interactive, with participants encouraged to involve themselves with the festival and not suck the good vibes away by merely standing and watching.
True in the virtual Burning Man as well, with visitors to CYBER DREAMS able mix and mingle their digital representations on the dance floor and, also from the event’s page, “feed on the stardust sexual energy generator and meet like-minded cybersex gods from all corners of the multiverse.”
If it’s your mind that’s doing the craving, then lectures and presentations on sextech from industry luminaries like as the camp’s founder, Angelina Aleksandrovich; Ari Peralta; Ayesha Hussain; Joséphine Boris; plus two more of our sex tech favorites, Bryony Cole, and Cathline Smoos, will undoubtedly sate your intellectual hungering.
And all this is what we could manage to cram into this limited space. For more info, and to get your ticket to the CYBER DREAMS camp, then head over to their Eventbrite page.
Which, we’re happy to say, will cost you absolutely nothing.
If you’re going to Black Rock Mesa
If you’re excited about all this, and taking into account all that CYBER DREAMS and the rest of 2020’s virtual burning man has to offer you certainly have every right to be, more than likely your next question is “how do I get there?”
In that, we’ve got good news and not-so-good news. If you have both a higher-end virtual reality rig—like an HTC Vive, Oculus Go, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift CV1, or an Oculus Quest—and a PC beefy enough to handle it then you’ll all you can immerse yourself in Burning Man Multiverse.
Don’t worry if you can’t afford a VR rig, as you can enjoy Burning Man Multiverse with a Windows 10 PC.
Onto the not-so-good news, which feels like an especially nasty playa sunburn after hearing how ultra-mega cool CYBER DREAMS is gonna be, as Macintosh fans are out-of-luck. Bummer!
All tomorrow’s parties
Though us Apple users will be whimpering and whining at not being able to come, CYBER DREAMS looks to be an amazing event. Which, in turn, is part of an exciting new approach to what previously had only been a boots—or rather bare feet-on-the-ground festival.
But what’s more exciting is, just as when that initial bunch of free-spirits got together to set fire to their dreams, The Burning Man Multiverse is the first of it’s kind.
Which gets our own imaginations revving: looking at what CYBER DREAMS managed to do in a few short months, what erotic wonders could they and passionate artists like them unveil in the years to come?
Image sources: CYBER DREAMS, Hawaii Savvy, Shadoe Landman
