Back in 2003, San Francisco’s Linden Labs led the charge when it came to virtual reality. Unlike other online products, its platform, Second Life, wasn’t just a game; it was a means of realizing any and all kinds of online fantasies. Second Life held steady through a decade’s worth of digital trends, but now with a new generation of VR technology on the horizon, Linden has a new platform that’s once again poised to take the lead.