Second Life Hair Fair (for Ankaret)

[andygates]

It's not just ankaret who has a thing for hair: I found this intro and roundup of a recent Hair Fair in Second Life while mooching around looking for some SL gesture accessories.  There's got to be a "thumbs up" and "crikey" gesture out there somewhere.  Why?  So that I could shoot some scraps of SL footage to cut into the Google Earth tours, of course.  Sierra Alpha Delta, hein?  :)

So there you go, virtual hair.  Surprisingly detailed, fancy, subtle moving-and-shiny hair.  And yes, people obsessive enough to buy (for about $0.50 a pop) a tidy style and a bedhead style and swap 'em around as the day - or night - goes on.  It's entertaining to watch just how elaborate the dress-up doll can become if you've got a groaning shedload of tech to play with. 

Which reminds me, my avatar needs some better sunglasses...

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

OMG, cute! But why are all the hair models Harry Potter?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That's the avvie of the reviewer, I think. He just uses the blog as an excuse to be a total clothes and hair (and, er, skin) whore.

Incidentally, although I didn't find my sports pundit gestures, I did come across some cute goth ones. "/mope" is absolute quality. I've never seen it in the wild but it has to be there.

In the wild, the most subtle I've seen was a trans girl who used a female model but selected male animations such as sitting with her legs wide, which has an amazingly butching effect on a bunch of polygons. Furries with flicky tails don't count as subtle.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Fear the furdom and debilitating life-suckage.

There are some very good - and some really bad - furry avatars out there. Quite why SL has prospered in fur I don't know; maybe it's because you can custom-code your avatars completely (I've recently seen a cartoon raven, a full-size chrome dracolich and more interestingly a jagged black abstract scribble).

Of course for every good one, there are fifteen stock buffed anthro wolves or winged vixens with preposterous boobs. But that's just people for you, and net people in particular.

Maybe in part it's because a good furry avatar doesn't enter the Uncanny Valley the way that the pic I posted does. Young not-Harry-Potter is creepy in that Polar Express this-mask-hides-your-evil-machine-soul way.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Of course for every good one, there are fifteen stock buffed anthro wolves or winged vixens with preposterous boobs.

I'm sure I've said it before, but it amazes me anew every time someone talks about it: Second Life is so Snowcrash.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Damn right.

Now, all I need is a Second Earth: Google Earth / Second Life mashup. And it's not just a rumour. And frankly with enough realtime layers, you've got your Singularity right there.