Ricky Thomas of South Africa and Tanner Wells of the United States, burners who met at AfrikaBurn in 2014, were working on an immersive theater experience for a large event in France in 2020 when the pandemic intervened. It seemed like the idea was dead, but Thomas posed the question: Could they turn a physical immersive experience into an virtual immersive experience? The Co-Reality Collective, which had been putting on online parties in the pandemic, invited Thomas and Wells to participate in the programming they were organizing for the 2020 virtual Burning Man.