Tech giants like Google, Facebook (now Meta), and Apple could end up collaborating to create a Metaverse instead of doing it alone, according to Rob Nicholls, an associate professor of governance at the University of New South Wales.

His comments come amid reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is struggling to attract large numbers of people to its virtual reality platform, which he hopes will be the future of the company and attract the valuable young audience that opts for media. from the competition like TikTok.

“It was Mark Twain who said, ‘The report of my death was an exaggeration,’” Nicholls told The Epoch Times in an email. “One of the problems with doing assessments of the Metaverse is that it’s too early.”

Currently, there are signs that platform adoption is slow with the cost of…