Wednesday, 30 August 2017

The VR dating show makes me want to never date again

You know those gimmick-based dating shows about people going on dates naked, or in the dark, or with some other twist? Someone is doing this for virtual reality now, and while that already may not sound great, I promise that it is worse than it sounds. It’s not that Virtually Dating is dumb about VR, or that it sensationalizes it. It’s just a dating show that’s so boring it tarnishes the concept of dating itself.

The five-episode Virtually Dating is a partnership between Condé Nast Entertainment and Facebook, made for Facebook’s recently launched Watch video feed. (The show itself is not shot in virtual reality.) As you may have guessed from the title, each episode sets up a blind date between two strangers who are wearing HTC Vive...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/30/16227238/virtually-dating-conde-nast-facebook-vr-dating-show

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-vr-dating-show-makes-me-want-to.html

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