SECOND LIFE, July 10 (Reuters) - A future where the Second Life Grid is a minor player in a sprawling Metaverse of thousands of competing virtual worlds sounds like a bad outcome for Linden Lab.

对于林登实验室来说，如下场景应该不是个好结果：在未来，由成千上万个竞争性的虚拟世界乱搭乱建而成的虚拟宇宙中，Second Life只扮演一个次要角色。

Second Life's growth over the last several years spawned an entirely new industry, sometimes called metaverse development companies (MDCs), to shepherd multinational brands into the virtual world.

SL过去几年的成长历程衍生出一个全新的行业，有时也称虚拟实境开发公司(MDCs)，它带领跨国品牌向虚拟世界进军。