Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style
Plurk, the social network of choice for Second Life's fashion community, has a feature that allows users to post anonymously to their followers feeds. Typically this feature is used for... Well, it's used for a lot of garbage, to be blunt. Drama and dumb questions and things that generally don't add anything to the ecosystem. But recently, an anonymous designer has been using it to tease an upcoming release still in development -- new life-like mesh eyes with animated pupil dilation, and a glossy shine effect courtesy of SL Materials. They've posted multiple still screenshots of the eyes, as well as the rather creepy (but still cool) animated gif shown above.
While these aren't the first set of eyes in Second Life to make use of materials (nor are they the first set to imitate the natural fuctuations of an iris/pupil) the crisp textures (and of course the air of secrecy) have my curiosity piqued. As for the identity of the mystery designer, I suppose well just have to wait and see.
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