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| Tantra Total Woman HUD helped me get pregnant. |
I have been mentioning the Tantra Total Woman HUD in several of my blogs. When I first started using the HUD I had many questions and the creator Tex Evans was more then willing to spend time answering them. He is a kind gentlemen who then graciously allowed me to poke into the motives and reasoning behind his creation of the Tantra Hud, and even into his personal life. Tex discovered Secondlife through Wired magazine 7 years ago and was intrigued finding his way to SL he has been a steady user since.
Kalia: What inspired you to create the Tantra Total Woman HUD? Was it a gradual realization to do this or an light bulb moment?
Tex: The Tantra Total Woman HUD was inspired by a friend of mine. She was a true "risk" role player. She loved the excitement of taking a chance, but never wanted to be pregnant. For her, getting pregnant was the consequence of a lost gamble. Her excitement transferred to me and awoke a desire inside of me as well. Initially, each month we would roll the dice offline to see what happened, but after a few times of this, I decided to bring it into game and developed a simple pregnancy test where you told it what you did each day of your fertile time. This gave way to automatically detecting the events during the cycle and after a lot of medical research and adding features, I eventually realized that there might be a few other people who would enjoy our type of role play. When I first released the Tantra, I never imagined it would become as big as it has become. But I'm just happy so many people enjoy it.
Kalia: When you first started the process of creating the Tantra HUD were there any complications to the process?
Tex: I have been writing code for a long time, so the technical aspects weren't too complicated. The hardest thing was developing the conception model, and I spent several months reading through the medical literature to find the correct statistics. Some of the statistics were not necessarily apples to apples, so I had to make some educated assumptions on how to convert them into something that could be coded into SL and develop some statistical models that converted the methods I could code in SL to give a realistic approximation to the real life statistics.
Kalia: Did you anticipate the impact the Tantra HUD would have on second life and it's citizens?
Tex: That was something that caught me off guard. I figured that maybe 10 or 20 people would be interested in the Tantra when I released it. I never anticipated that it would be as big of a success as it has been. Even now, I never log in expecting to make money, or really treat Tantra like a business. I work on Tantra for my own personal enjoyment. I would continue working on it, even if it was only used by me and my friends. But, I have had several messages from women who can not have children in real life and how they loved being able to realistically experience pregnancy in Second Life, starting by using my HUD. That has made all my work so worthwhile to hear that what was initially a toy to me, has meant something very special to someone else.
Kalia: Do you have any plans to expand the product line?
Tex: Right now, my focus is on improving the main Tantra HUD. There are so many different areas where I would like to tailor the product for different communities, including the Furry and Gorean communities, but those aren't the only ones. I have several accessory products that I am working on that cater to the risk role play community.
Kalia: Has the blossoming industry focused on pregnancy in SL been a surprise for you?
Tex: That is another surprise. When I started, there was only a few clinics. It has grown so much, and most of he clinics put a lot of effort on making the pregnancy experience a good one for their patients.
Kalia: If you were to go back to the beginning of your second life would you create the Tantra HUD all over again?
Tex: Most definitely.
Though never married in SL, Tex has had children with close friends in world and his work with the Tantra HUD has blossomed into a desire to have children in RL. I think the truest indicator of the man behind the pixels is when I asked him what moment made all the work creating the Tantra HUD worth it.
Tex: Going back to what I mentioned earlier, the women who I was able to give them something in SL that they couldn't have in real life.
He answered my questions candidly and I wish to say thank you to Tex for spending a bit of time letting us get to know the man behind the Tantra HUD. If you wish to learn more about the Tantra Hud itself I delve into it in my blog PLUS SIGN!.
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A quick note on styling
the top is Tits Up
the hat hair is Maitreya
leggings are not available.
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