A VR view of the Golden Gate Bridge in Project Sansar.
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Linden Lab wants users to create social experiences in virtual reality world

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Linden Lab is putting out a call for applications from users who want to create social experiences in virtual reality. Linden, the creator of the Second Life online world, is creating a new platform dubbed Project Sansar, an online virtual world that will be viewable with a variety of VR headsets.

If it makes the successful leap to VR, Linden will be a rare company that came to being in the first craze for virtual worlds in the early 2000s and transitioned its audience to the new age of VR, which is expected to be a $30 billion market by 2020, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.