Avatar Welcome Pack

I read about a new Avatar Welcome Pack and got really excited. What’s this? New avatars? Is Second Life finally offering us something visually appealing? Anything would be better than Senra. Curious to know what’s included, I began digging around and stumbled upon the Virtual Bloke blog (Second Life New Avatar Welcome Packs – It’s time to check your inventory library, folks!). Unfortunately, the Avatar Welcome Pack was quickly removed from the Library; Second Life stated, “These items are in the final stages of QA, but we’re not quite ready to unveil all the details just yet.”

UPDATE: The Avatar Welcome Pack is back in the Library now.

I wanted to know what’s in the welcome pack, even though I don’t really need it. So, my friend Sasy suggested that I check the beta grid since the updates there tend to lag behind the main grid. Boom! I found it on the beta grid.

First impressions? It’s okay. It’s definitely better than Senra, but it feels limited. This pack includes a very lite body and a very lite mesh head; however, they are wearable right out of the box. There are also some hair and clothing items included from various brands. I’m currently wearing everything as provided, without any customization. When this goes live on the main grid, I think residents will enjoy the opportunity to mix and match these heads and bodies with more items they already own to create something cuter.

I can’t wait to see how this impacts the new user experience in Second Life. It’s quite intriguing that Second Life is focusing exclusively on human avatars as part of this new user experience. Even though I am a human avatar all the time, I truly appreciated the grid’s diversity, which included animal avatars and various non-human avatars, among others.

UPDATE! The set back eyes are because I didn’t reset skeleton. I just figured that the avatar came like that, lol! So imagine these avatars without the set back eyes. 🙂