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BRCvr is a an annual, week-long community event held in AltspaceVR, which is Microsoft's immersive reality platform. BRCvr is one of the official virtual Burning Man experiences.

The name BRCvr alludes to the temporary city known as Black Rock City, which is built annually in Nevada's desert north of Reno. Black Rock City has been the location of the annual Burning Man event for many years.

BRCvr first began in 2014, as a virtual 3D model created by Greg Edwards, after he returned from the Burning Man event in Nevada. Greg's 1:1 scale model included all of Black Rock City based on his photographs of the camps, art, and structures present in 2014. In 2015, Athena Demos from LA League of Arts joined Greg to present the virtual scale model of the event as a way of archiving the always changing event city. However, Burning Man organizers were not interested at the time. Doug Jacobson joined them early in 2020 and the three founded the event production entity Big Rock Creative. Their 3D model was first uploaded to Microsoft's AltspaceVR platform on April 3, 2020. Soon after that, the Covid-19 pandemic caused the normally in-person event of Burning Man to be cancelled. Burning Man organizers announced their event was moving to multiple virtual platforms on July 2, 2020.