Seraphim, AI Character Designer round-out “Membership Mania” Month

On Monday, February 24th, Linden Lab announced the final rounds of perks and enticements in their February “membership mania” promotion to encourage users to subscribe to the Second Life membership tiers (Plus, Premium and Premium Plus). This is the third such announced for the month, and comprises the following:

SeraPlus – In Association with Seraphim

SeraPlus is an all-new exclusive perk in partnership with Seraphim and available to Plus, Premium, and Premium Plus members intended to bring subscribers “all new exclusive, high-quality virtual items from some of Second Life’s top creators”.

Starting in April, Plus, Premium, and Premium Plus members will be able to claim their new perks inworld at the Seraphim region including:

• Quarterly SeraPlus Boxes: Four times a year, members will receive a curated box filled with exclusive virtual creations from some of Second Life’s top creators.
• Monthly Exclusive Gifts: For each of the remaining eight months of the year, members will receive one additional exclusive item created in partnership with a top creator.

Expanded Access to the Updated AI Character Generator & More Profile Picks

Expanded Access to the AI Character Designer

At the end of 2024, Linden Lab announced the Alpha release of a new AI Character Generator utilising Convai, a platform for developers and creators proving an intuitive approach to designing characters with multimodal perception abilities in both virtual and real world environments. At the time, the service was only available to Premium Plus subscribers – although it was suspended shortly thereafter so it might be overhauled in response to feedback (see: Linden Lab leverage Convai for AI character generation in Second Life).

With this announcement, the Character Designer is re-launched, and is now available to all three subscription tiers: Plus, Premium and Premium Plus.

Members can now access this innovative tool to craft and customize virtual characters with intelligent responses, unique personalities, and immersive roleplay capabilities. It’s an exciting way to enhance community-building, storytelling, and social interaction in Second Life. While still in development, we’re excited to give a wider audience early access to this experimental creator tool.

– from the Lab’s official announcement

Profile Picks Increased for ALL Second Life

• In response to multiple requests from users, Linden Lab will be increasing the number of Profile Picks users can have from 10 to 20.
• This will require a simulator update, and so the capability will be rolling out “over the next couple of weeks”.

Membership Mania Offerings

As noted, the above is the third such multi-part promotion linked to Second Life subscription tiers, with the first two being:

• An initial announcement (see:Lab announces Second Life “membership mania” –  which extended some of the perks to Basic account holders as well), comprising:
  • SL Mobile Streaks Rewards (see: Looking at Streaks reward testing on the SL Mobile app).
  • A selection of Linden Home options for Plus subscribers and increased Land Capacity for all Linden Home parcels.
  • And various increased limits for offline IMs, Groups, Animesh attachments.
• A second announcement (see: Further Second Life “membership mania” from Linden Lab), comprising
  • Free Mesh Uploads for Premium Plus Members.
  • The chance to win one of three gaming PCs.

In addition, at the start of the month, the Lab released the latest Premium Plus Linden Home “Thousand Islands” theme – see A look at the Thousand Islands Linden Homes theme in Second Life.

Links

• Membership Mania: The Final Week of Exciting Perks! – Linden Lab
• Membership Mania Week 3: Big Rewards & Even Bigger Perks! – Linden Lab
• Membership Mania Week 2: Daily Linden Rewards & Even More Perks! – Linden Lab
• Second Life Membership options