Sberbank CEO German Gref criticized Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s idea of creating a metaverse – a unified platform for virtual and physical things. Gref’s opinion, which he expressed at the Forum of innovative financial technologies Finopolis 2021, reports TASS.
“You said that there are two trends: ecosystems and metauniverses. If ecosystems are an already existing reality, practically all over the world, then the metaverse is probably the trend that is still visible, but there is not a single metaverse, due to the fact that no one has yet been able to make this transition technically, ”said Gref.
The chairman of the board of Sberbank also criticized one of Facebook’s products – the virtual reality headset Oculus.
“I don’t believe in the Zuckerberg metaverse. Even after his speech, I once again looked at all his products, and put on this very Oculus, and spent more than an hour in it, for the first time in my life. I don’t know, maybe you need to spend a month there, after that you’ll get used to it. But this is inconvenient. This is a very serious pressure even for an adult. While all these avatars are so unattractive and the games are so imperfect, even the games. It’s just that there is nothing more worthwhile there, ”he added. At the same time, Gref noted that in the future, the trend for the metaverse will affect everyone.
On October 28, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will change its name to Meta. The move, he said, reflects Facebook’s desire to show that it consists not only of a social network, but also of a number of other services. In July, the company said it was recruiting a team to develop a “metaverse”. It will become part of Facebook Reality Labs, which will deal with virtual (VR) and augmented (AR) reality projects.
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