According to the head of Sberbank, the metaverse is an obvious trend with a perspective for the future, but one should not create illusions about the success of these projects at the present time. He explained that after Zuckerberg’s talk on the metaverse, he spent over an hour in Oculus – a virtual reality device manufactured by Meta – but saw nothing serious. According to Gref, he believes more in augmented reality, but at the same time considers technological barriers a key factor hindering the development of such technologies.