Projects

Second Life Viewer

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 6,642,422 people from around the globe. Linden Lab is making the source code for the Second Life Viewer available to ... [More] everyone. Talented developers from around the world will be able to collaborate with Linden Lab to refine and enhance the experience for all residents of Second Life. [Less]

Snowglobe

Snowglobe was an open source Second Life-compatible viewer, built jointly by the open source community and Linden Lab. The project has been discontinued in favor of the Second Life Viewer project, which unifies the internal development by Linden Lab and contributions by the open source community.

Croquet

Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable. The Croquet architecture ... [More] supports synchronous communication, collaboration, resource sharing and computation among large numbers of users on multiple platforms and multiple devices. [Less]