Love in virtual reality
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We take a look at the companies moving the business of love to the metaverse.
Hannah Mullane meets Aurora Townsend, co-founder of the world’s first virtual reality dating app, who tells us about what customers can expect and Hannah heads into the metaverse herself to meet Marc Charlton, founder of Dates VR, a virtual reality speed dating event.
Hannah also hears from a couple who got married on a virtual reality platform called Decentraland. That company's creative producer also explains what it’s really like to plan a virtual wedding because just like in the real world, weddings are big business.
Presenter / Producer: Hannah Mullane Image: Avatars; Credit: ‘Dates VR’
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| 0:00.0 | On the podium, the podcast where Olympic and Paralympic athletes share their remarkable personal journeys. |
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| 0:10.9 | Search for On the Podium. |
| 0:12.3 | We're ready to go. We're ready to have fun. |
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| 0:15.1 | Wherever you found this podcast. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, I'm Hannah Malane. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:24.8 | Today we're talking all about love, but not in the way you might expect. |
| 0:29.6 | We're leaving the world we know to go and explore an entirely different one in virtual reality. |
| 0:35.5 | You have this headset on. You will have a 360 immersive experience in a |
| 0:44.0 | different world. You can match with people in your state, in your city, in your multiple cities, |
| 0:49.5 | or you can choose that it doesn't matter to you and you can meet someone halfway across the world and |
| 0:55.4 | you're happy. We're looking into the future to see how technology is changing how we interact with |
| 1:00.6 | each other and what that might mean for our love lives. From casual dating to planning your wedding, |
| 1:06.5 | it's all happening in virtual spaces. You can really play with the possibilities of a fantastic party or a ceremony that is completely |
| 1:15.6 | out of ordinary. |
| 1:17.2 | And you can invite anyone around the world, right? |
| 1:19.7 | It's not just curious and peculiar for how you can put people together in a global scale, |
| 1:26.2 | all your family, your friends, and give them |
| 1:28.8 | a unique experience than they never had before. |
| 1:31.2 | From millions of dollars of investment in dating apps to couples choosing to say, I do, |
| 1:35.6 | in virtual reality. We'll discuss it all on today's Business Daily. |
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