What newbies to Second Life now see
UPDATE: Since this post is attracting an inordinate number of spam comments (all of which are being caught by my spam filter, but it’s still a pain to keep emptying it) I’m disabling comments on it.
Hi peeps!
Normally a post like this would go onto my Ponderings blog, but since it’s related to the newbie experience I’m putting it here.
Every now and then I create a new alt, to see what the ‘Welcome to Second Life’ experience is like. There was a time when it was pretty stable and didn’t change. You first rezzed at an Orientation Island with a tutorial HUD on your screen that directed you to do things, told you how to walk, to drive vehicles, to chat to other people, to buy things, to change your looks; basically how to do the important stuff you’d want to do in a virtual world.
The welcome experience has gone through several iterations since then, but they always included tutorials on the important stuff. Until now.
This is where Mar’s new alt rezzed:
Now, put yourself in the shoes of a complete newbie (remember how confused you were when you first rezzed?) and hop behind the cut…