Jessica Ducrou, who is developing this year's event with co-producer Paul Piticco. "We wanted to re-create the festival as it exists in real life. People who've been will be able to connect with the space and their memories and their experiences and people that haven't been will get to see what it looks like." Ducrou is describing the festival as extended reality, taking what fans are used to experiencing online and augmenting the realism using virtual reality headsets and spatial sound, noting "it's more than watching a stream — it's an immersive, connected experience for a community." Attendees can even customize their festival look thanks to tech from Marvelous Designer, fashion software that allows users to design clothes for their avatars, create their own schedule, travel from stage to stage and meet up and party with friends and strangers. In PC or VR mode, avatars around the world can talk and connect with each other as if they were at the real live event, allowing for natural voice conversations that fall off in the distance and emulate real life.