Tired of Trying to Teleport into Packed Second Life Events? Then This HUD's Definitely For You

Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style

There's no single "Event Season" in Second Life, but things sure start to pick up in the spring -- especially when the various Relay For Life fairs start popping up. And with those events come the desperate rush t get into them, and usually days (even a solid week) of failed teleport attempts. Such is the case with the latest round of The Arcade which opened it's doors this weekend. Two days later and it's still practically impossible to squeeze your way in unless you have nothing better to do than sit there hitting the teleport button every five seconds. The region is full, the region is full, the region is full...

But there's a HUD out there that promises do just that for you, so you can do literally anything else with all that precious time. CheshireSoft's LetMeIn HUD seems like a pretty straightforward product: Pop in a destination SLURL and let it do its thing. Those repeated brute force teleport attempts will be taken care of and all you'll need to do is clear away the notifications once it's done. Just don't wander too far or get too wrapped up in whatever else you're doing; LetMeIn also has an AFK timer, so if you manage to teleport in to a crowded sim only to idle there you'll be teleported back from whence you came so that a slightly more alert event-goer can take your place.

LetMeIn has more than its fair share of ardent fans, but it also has one very big catch. As the description in the Marketplace listing says, the creator is no longer active in SL. That means if you have any problems with the product, you'll be on your own. Even so, with its 5 star average rating and very reasonable L$150 price tag, it may still be worth trying out.

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Iris Ophelia (@bleatingheart, Janine Hawkins IRL) has been featured in the New York Times, and has spoken about SL-based design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and with pop culture/fashion maven Johanna Blakley.

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[Ms. CC Creeggan (CronoCloud Creeggan)]

Perhaps instead of workarounds like this, we as obsessed fashionistas should be rethinking the feasibility and suitability of overly-crowded and laggy location based events in SL...rather than trying to figure out some better way of marketing the things we need.