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Virtual avatar-based dating has always been a curiosity in the online dating industry. Meeting potential dates in a browser-based virtual chat environment is absolutely a great idea. Virtual dating is about as niche as you can get. The usual argument against virtual dating is that the phone is a lot easier to use, you don’t [...]
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From Online Personals Watch: Omnidate is conducting a study with Professor Dan Ariely into the effectiveness of virtual dating and is looking for dating sites to participate in this research. That’s a smart move to align with Professor Ariely. I’ve read his research and seen some of the demos of their virtual dating application, fascinating [...]
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Signed up for Omnidate today. Haven’t been on the service for a while and I wanted to see what’s changed since I went on a “date” there with co-founder Ravit Abelman last year.
Compete says Omnidate has about 2,000 monthly visitors. any number under 10k I usual triple, so around 10k visitors. I’m not sure what [...]
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VentureBeat has launched it’s own Vivaty 3-D Virtual Scene. Vivaty embeds in web pages, making it a better choice for companies wary of building environments in SecondLife, which requires a large client download that needs to be frequently updated and it’s steep learning curve. By using Vivity’s tools to splice together a virtual scene, you [...]
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OmniDate has landed it’s first dating site as a customer. Ireland’s AnotherFriend now offers virtual dating to it’s 200,000 members.
OmniDate is a mashup up Userplane, IMVU and OKCupid.
OmniDate says that sites that don’t use their system are second rate. Perhaps not the best way to introduce yourself to the industry. That’s desperation marketing, whereas OmniDate [...]
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