Linden Lab
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Linden Research, Inc., doing business as Linden Lab, is an American technology company that is best known as the developer of Second Life.
Linden Lab headquarters in San Francisco
Two players out on the water in Second Life in 2012
Virtual reality
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Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment, education and business. VR is one of the key technologies in the reality-virtuality continuum. As such, it is different from other digital visualization solutions, such as augmented virtuality and augmented reality.
An operator controlling The Virtual Interface Environment Workstation (VIEW) at NASA Ames
Researchers with the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, equipped with a VR headset and motion controllers, demonstrating how astronauts might use virtual reality in the future to train to extinguish a fire inside a lunar habitat
An Omni treadmill being used at a VR convention
A Missouri National Guardsman looks into a VR training head-mounted display at Fort Leonard Wood in 2015.