I'd just like to say how happy and excited I am about this news. SL is an amazing product but its core graphics underneath the hood are circa 2002. There have been great improvements by LL and residents have done wonders with this platfom, but fundamental things such as the default avatar mesh, UV maps ect cannot be improved without breaking existing content and upsetting a lot of people..Far better to start again and work from bottom up. I'm sure we will be blown away by the new graphics engine, shaders and avatar quality. I always wished I had been at the start of SL in 2002, now I can be at the start of this it's going to be great!