In my recent travels, I have seen a lot of weird and wonderful places and some truly outrageous avatars! Did you know that one of Second Life’s oldest communities is Luskwood, founded in 2003? It’s still a popular hangout for furries to meet and chat. This will probably be the first post in a series of blogposts as I wander the grid in search of what makes furries tick. So I decided to begin exploring the rich and sometimes crazy world of furries in SL. But, of course, that doesn’t stop the vibrant furry communities and clubs in the virtual world of Second Life! In fact, aside from possibly VRChat, I would be hard pressed to think of a single social VR platform or virtual world that has as many furries scurrying around than SL. Of course, since the coronavirus pandemic started, furry conventions in the real world have been cancelled around the world. The furry fandom is global, with hundreds of local groups existing worldwide and dozens of conventions held annually. Most furries create for themselves an anthropomorphized animal character ( fursona) with whom they identify and can function as an avatar within the community. Some furries wear elaborate costumes or paraphernalia such as animal ears or tails, or represent themselves as anthropomorphic animals in online communities such as Second Life.įurry fandom is an inclusive term that describes the community of furries that span online, local, and international settings. The term furry describes a diverse community of fans, artists, writers, gamers, and role players. According to FurScience*, a website run by the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (IARP), a multidisciplinary team of research scientists studying the furry fandom: All my avatars have been either 100% human or 100% animal-nothing in between!įurries, of course, have been an active subculture in the real world as well as in virtual worlds for many years now. You might be surprised to learn this, but in my 14 years of creating and styling avatars of various kinds in Second Life (see here, here, and most recently here for some examples of my weird, obsessive, creative little hobby), I have never created a furry avatar. Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality & Role Play.Tag Cloud 7 Deadly Sins 12 Days of Christmas 15-Minute Avatar Makeover 2019-nCoV Academic Research Adam Frisby Addams Advent Calendars Advertising Ajuda SL Brasil Akeruka Alli&Ali Designs Altamura AltspaceVR Anxiety Art Artificial Intelligence Artists Atlas Hopping Augmented Reality Avatar Makeover Avatars Baby Monkey Bakes on Mesh Belle Epoque Bigscreen Blockchain Blogging Blueberry Breakroom Catwa Christmas Classic Meshbody Clothing Clubhouse Coco Designs Comparison Conference Contest Coronavirus COVID-19 Cryptocurrency December Decentraland Depression Discord Documentary Donald Trump Drag Draxtor Despres Dress Ebbe Altberg Economy Editorial Education Educators in VR ENGAGE Entice Essenz Events Facebook/Meta Facebook Spaces Fashion Firelight Hair Free Freebies Free Store Credit Funny Galen Games Garbaggio Genesis Lab Genus Project Gift Card Google+ Group Gifts Hair Hallowe'en Higher Education High Fidelity Hilly Haalan Horizon Worlds Housekeeping Note HTC Vive Hunts Interview InWorldz JUMO Kent Bye LeLutka LGBTQ Libraries Linden Lab Manitoba Mark Space Mark Zuckerberg Men Men's Clothing Mental Health Mesh Avatars Mesh Bodies Mesh Heads Meta Meta Horizon Worlds Metaverse Metaverse Newscast Mobile Apps Mozilla Hubs Music NeosVR NFTs Non-Fungible Tokens Occupy White Walls Oculus Oculus Quest Oculus Rift OpenSim OpenSimulator Pandemic Pandemic Diary Philip Rosedale Product Meetup Rec Room Remote Workteams Research Review RSVF Sansar Sansar Atlas Hopping Sansar Store SARS-CoV-2 Scandalize Science Fiction Second Life Second Life Accessories Second Life Clothing Second Life Costumes Second Life Dresses Second Life Events Second Life Fashion Second Life Gowns Second Life Hair Second Life Hunts Second Life Men's Fashion Second Life Mesh Avatars Second Life Mesh Bodies Second Life Mesh Heads Second Life Shoes Second Life Skin Appliers Second Life Skins Second Life Women's Clothing Second Life Women's Fashion Shoes Shop and Hop Event Silvan Moon Designs Sinespace Sinespace Events Social Media Social VR Solas Solas NaGealai Somnium Space Staramba Spaces Statistics Stats Steam Strawberry Linden Strawberry Singh Stress Survey T-Shirts The Free Dove The Sandbox Tivoli Cloud VR Transgender Tuty Twitter University of Manitoba Valve Index Vanity Fair Video VirBELA Virtual Conference Virtual Reality Virtual Universe Virtual Worlds Virtue Voxels/Cryptovoxels VRChat vTime Wagner James Au Wave Winnipeg Women Women's Clothing Wookey Wow Skins Wuhan Coronavirus YARTVRA YouTube Blogroll Non-Combat Open-World Exploration and Puzzle Games.High Fidelity (and Forks of Its Open-Source Code).
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