Linden Lab
Linden Lab is collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute as a part of the eight-month long Capstone Project for the Master's of Human-Computer Interaction program. Linden Lab is serving as the industry sponsor for our project team.
"Linden Lab was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience, where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Today this experience, known as the Second LifeŽ world, has a rapidly growing population of Residents from around the globe, who are creating and inhabiting a virtual world of their own design."
-- from the Linden Lab website
Second Life
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world created by its Residents since 2003. Due to increased media attention, Second Life has experienced explosive growth over the past 18 months, and is now inhabited by over 10 million registered users.