The Really Olympic Swimming Pool is a new product from New World Notes sponsor Really Needy HUD, which turns activity in Second Life into a fun Sims-like roleplaying game. As you probably guessed, any swimming in the pool is tracked as exercise on the Really Needy HUD. As creator Grace7 Ling explains, you just need to click on the pool’s life buoy, to get started:
“By clicking the Swim HUD it will auto attach as a temporary attachment, and your avatar can swim forward, back, up, down, and also make a jump dive. It also tracks how long you are in the pool’s mesh/prim water and communicates to the Fitness script in the Really Needy HUD”.
As befitting style-conscious SL users, the pool also enables users to look wet, when they get out:
Cosmetics brand Izzie's has created tattoo layers, “so that Really Needy HUD users who enter the pool,” notes Grace, “can emerge from the pool with water droplets on their skin. This feature will be released shortly.” (See pic above. Grace's system also works with other content creators with the same wet effect on swimwear and hair.)
If you like to swim in Second Life’s virtual oceans rather than a pool, Grace has also partnered with Infinity Swim, so that your avatar can swim off-coast AND earn fitness points with the Really Needy HUD too.
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