Have you recently met someone you like through an online dating site? Now you can date in virtual worlds before dating in person! (And it’s free!) Check out weopia.com.
xadrian
With realistic avatars, set in Half Life 2 environments.
Not setting ourselves up for failure at all, are we?
Gauldar
I always considered dating to be a form of “grinding”, and I’m not talking about the erotic kind. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, chicks dig JRPGs.
kdub
I think this could be hilarious. I’d be so tempted to just run into things, jump off cliffs, try to drown the guy, etc. It would not help me get a second date though.
Natey
Definitive proof that we are indeed living in the future. I have to wonder how someone from just a few generations ago would react to this.
MadBiker Wolf
People in SecondLife have been doing this since 1999. I think Ric Romero has a new job as a research professor at MIT.
Torley
I met my wife in Second Life. 
I miss the astronaut that used to be in the background of this comment box, this troll is darker and makes it harder to see what I’m writing on the right-hand side…
Starship
Heheheh I was just about to plug Second Life, with its fabulously infinite dating possibilities, as well as its endless creative opportunities, (free to join btw – just head over to Secondlife.com), but Torley & Co. beat me to it….
Isis
The question is can you have sex….if not it’s just as gay as any other site. I think this is uber dumb…I am a bit of a geek but thisis taking dorkiness to the next level.
Tamara
*sigh*
It isn’t supposed to be like SL or rp game… it isn’t a game. Also, it’s private between you and the person you invite.
It’s a virtual date, and the inworld stuff like quizzes help you evaluate if this is a compatible person to meet offline.
So you aren’t supposed to use it on and one, but to figure out who is worth meeting for a real date.
Most people using online dating have a lot of bad first dates before finding someone compatible. I would know.
If some of you took the time to read rather than assume you know what you’re talking about you might understand better. I’ve used it a few times since it came out and have seen for myself that it does work.
Can you have sex? wtf? you are a geek! Time to step away from the computer if that’s your interest lol.
Justin
This looks like the ultimate trolling site. Hey, just stand over there… don’t move…
*runs date over at full speed with hover-car*
sdfdsafds
What research, specifically? Was it published in a respectable peer reviewed journal?
I’d much rather read the original research paper than watch an ad with a vague reference to unnamed “MIT researchers”.
Foreigner1
MIT-Research has shown that doing this kind of virtual dates before you meet the real person helps in having a more successful real date…
Ddduhhh- Any real date will go a lot better if two people do a lot of exchanges in honest writing and speaking before they actually meet. That has been the case since people started dating back in prehistoric ages. Virtual environments are only yet another medium.
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