The happy future in the metaverses predicted by the big companies has come much closer than we expected. And it’s not about NFTs making millions of dollars or even sneakers made in virtual reality. Technology has also reached virtual relationships between men and women where they can go on dates, kiss and have sex without seeing each other.
The Nevermet service (translated from English as “never meet”) was launched on Valentine’s Day this year. Initially, the developers had one goal: to support people who couldn’t relate during the coronavirus pandemic. For example, someone had to break up with their partner due to moving, and someone completely lost the opportunity to meet with potential candidates during the period of self-isolation. And it is worth recognizing that the service’s purpose was fully realized when it first went into operation. But then Nevermet CEO Cam Mullen made a big statement saying that he plans to change the general nature of online relationships where physical attraction is the main factor in communication between a boy and a girl.
Modern relationships are too fixated on the appearance of partners, and therefore, as Mullen says, they cannot feel completely free. In the Metaverse, people choose mates without even knowing what they look like. First of all, they pay attention to common interests and “scroll” those who are ready to share adventures with them in VR reality.
What does the Nevermet app look like?
The developers do not even hide that the Nevermet interface resembles another dating app, Tinder. Only here it will be a metaverse avatar instead of photos of a fleshy man’s nude torso or a photo of him with a car. But even here there are subtleties. Few of the users choose the image according to its real appearance. Even if it does, believe me, it will be impossible to know them in life.
Most users choose images of animals, monsters or plants as avatars. In general, people here absolutely do not care who is in the main image – a girl with long hair and big breasts, or a giant smiling mushroom “scrolled” for warm connotations with childhood cartoons.
How do people meet in the metaverse?
If you have used online dating apps at least once, you will understand very well how Nevermet works. To get started, each user undergoes a small test that determines suitable partners for him. Then everything goes the proven way – the creator offers different accounts on which another user’s avatar appears, and a little information about him. However, instead of already familiar phrases such as “I love modern art and wine”, you can find frightening sentences from the series “I’m looking for someone to travel the galaxy with” from time to time. And oddly enough, it really can happen.
After two users play a match, they can go to a private chat. And the further development of events depends only on their imagination. In the Metaverse, couples can also go to clubs, bars, and restaurants. True, with one condition – all this happens in VR reality, and personal meetings in this case are simply excluded.
They don’t exchange Instagram accounts*, make FaceTime calls, and don’t send each other nude photos on WhatsApp. All communications are limited to the various functions of Nevermet.
Do app users meet in real life?
Of course, no one can forbid them to do this, but in practice everything is much more complicated than in theory. As you know, meta-universe does not mean borders, including regional ones. Users may reside in completely different countries. For example, after dating for a few months in the metaverse, the couple Stone and Helen decided to transfer their communication to the real world. True, it turned out that he lives in England and lives in Australia. They had to cross the ocean to meet in a neutral zone.
As practice shows, in order to establish a full-fledged relationship, these people do not need to see each other in person and get to know each other’s parents and friends. In the Metaverse, they can also have sex with each other on a first date, get married, have children, get divorced, and more than once. Their life in VR reality has now turned into a Sims game played not by children and teenagers, but by adults who want to find love.
* Considered extremist and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Source: People Talk
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