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We’ve all laughed at how awful the default avatars could be in Second Life. Their dreadful appearance probably contributed to the low retention rate of first-time users (Wager James Au, in New World Notes, often cites that only 10% of us stick around after our first log-in).  As a recent blog from Linden Lab® admits in its title, “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.”

I’m very pleased that Linden Lab has teamed up with some very good skin and clothing designers to produce a line of avatars for newcomers.  These pictures cannot lie; the old avatars look awful in any photo, and these will provide much better starting points.

Good job, Linden Lab! Now if you could only make other aspects of the first hours in-world more rewarding.  Then get the roads to work better...or maybe not.  I like the challenges of surreal driving. 

Back to Tenchi’s and my racing adventures, in the next post for the week ahead…

Be sure to check the “In a Strange Land” Archive for old posts

LL didn’t choose Pappy as new default avatar, because he is unique (and they didn’t want to confuse the ladies which Pappy to chase). ;-D

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