Pregnant Avatars With Growing, Visible, Birth-Able Fetuses Coming Soon to Second Life (Whether You're Ready or Not)

Bento-based avatars! These new-ish, highly customizable avatar skeletons have made all manner of SL innovations possible, and as you might have guessed, this one would come soon enough:

A pregnant avatar with a gradually growing fetus inside, which at the end of gestation, actually gives birth in Second Life. Another feature in development (if the technical challenges can be overcome): Making the fetuses visible through the baby bump.

It's an upcoming product from Zooby VR, creator of SL babies, virtual cats which even poop, and other strange and wonderful artificial life creations. Lead designer Carrie Tatsu tells me they've already garnered great excitement from her customers, avid for further roleplay possibilities:

"They want her to have the option to be on The Pill so she can decide to also not get pregnant," as Carrie tells me. "They want a daddy heads-up display so all daddies know who their baby mommas are and can bring them gifts. Mommas also need to know who knocked them up."

If you thought Second Life drama was already high, just wait until people start arguing over virtual paternity rights.

And yes, I said they literally give birth:

"User can choose 9 days, 9 weeks or 9 months," Tatus tells me. "Then she actually gives birth and the baby comes out of her when they run the birth animation."

"Like literally comes out of her virtual vagina?" I have to ask her.

"Yes it does."

Follow Zooby's Facebook page for updates to this expectant product. (See what I did there?)

Comments

[Cassie Middles]

I absolutely love this.
A major reason I love secondlife, is to give people the ability to do something they can't in RL. That includes being able to have a family/children. I've met many in secondlife that can't procreate, and it's hard on them. Secondlife becomes therapy for them with the ability to adopt kids or go through the roleplay process of having a child. SL is so beyond immersive, and this adds to it. I definitely think it is a lovely thing and a nice update compared to Mama Alpa.

[DrMandy Perez]

Very good news!
My RPG Group we run a clinic thats very much like planned parenthood that enpowers women to free themselves of unwanted male seeds implanted in them.

This could help in our new program were we screen out male babiee to terminate the pregnancy while ensuring the females get adapted , its our way of helping fight the inequality in secondlife

[Adeon]

Thanks I hate it

[sirhc desantis]

I...

You know, it is this sort of thing that keeps me in SL after all this time. What the hell else on Earth matches the sheer spectrum of erm creativity.

To quote Die A, I fink u freeky and I like you a lot.

[NiranV]

Alpha sorting, pixelated shadows and differing lighting around the belly coming in 3... 2... 1...

[Summer Haas]

Can I get one that has an alien fetus instead? Also would like it to pop out and start singing "Hello my Baby" if possible.

[Soda Sullivan]

There are no words