Apr 30, 2009
Virtual Ability Wins the Linden Prize
Linden Lab
Virtual Ability Wins the Linden Prize
April 30, 2009
Virtual Ability, Inc. is honored and pleased to win the first Linden Prize, awarded by Linden Lab, creator of Second Life®, for “an innovative in-world project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world.”
Virtual Ability, Inc. is a non-profit corporation based in Aurora, Colorado, dedicated to enabling people with a wide range of disabilities by providing a supporting environment for them to enter and thrive in online virtual worlds like Second Life®.
Alice Krueger, President of Virtual Ability, Inc. said, “On behalf of Virtual Ability, Inc. we are humbly grateful to receive the honor of winning one of the Linden Prizes. We thank Linden Lab for their support of our work and recognition of our efforts. The list of finalists was prestigious, and we are honored to be considered with them. We especially want to thank the Alliance Library System, which helped us get started in Second Life and provided significant funding for the development of our new resident orientation center, and the NonProfit Commons which has been an incubator for many real-world / virtual-world efforts.”
Krueger continued, “We will use the award to grow our programs and services in Second Life and in real life. More important, we hope the recognition brought by this award will be appreciated and shared by the tens of thousands of people who are using Second Life every day to help overcome their Real Life disabilities. For many of us, Second Life is not a game – it is a second chance at life. We thank also the members of our Virtual Ability community, for this honor is bestowed on us all, and we will all benefit from it.”
For more information on Virtual Ability, Inc., including the benefits of virtual reality for people with disabilities, please see www.VirtualAbility.org or contact Alice Krueger at
akrueger@virtualability.org or in Second Life as Gentle Heron.
Alice Kreuger is a participant in the Colorado Chapter, National MS Society’s Walk MS and is a member of Parker Pals’ self group in Douglas County.
For information on the Linden Prize, please see http://lindenlab.com/lindenprize .