People at Burning Man are fascinated by this enormous, shiny orb

• This year’s Burning Man festival theme was “I, Robot,” and two Danish designers caught people’s attention with a 100-foot-tall orb on a mast.
• The designers of “The ORB” raised $34,300 on Indigogo to get it to the festival in the Nevada desert.
• Some people have described it as a disco ball, and others as a planet – but it’s definitely become the crowd favorite.

People in Nevada at the Burning Man festival, which finishes on Monday, are transfixed by a huge orb on a mast.

“The ORB” has a diameter of 84 feet and stands an impressive 100 feet tall, towering above the dusty venue:

Some people at the festival, whose theme is “I, Robot,” have described the shiny sphere as a mini-planet. Its creators, Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange from Denmark, have said it’s a 1/500,000th-scale model of the Earth’s surface.

Before the festival, the designers shared a virtual rendering of the orb on their Indiegogo page:

They wanted to raise $50,000 to get the orb to Burning Man. In the end, they got $34,300, which apparently was enough.

This is what the finished product looked like:

Lange posted the artwork on his Instagram:

But some are content with it being a huge disco ball for festivalgoers:

“The ORB is a tribute to mother earth & human expression – designed to easily inflate and deflate,” Lange said on the Indigogo page.