Online dating has already become commonplace nowadays. According to Statista data, the number of dating app users will reach 280 million in the next two years. Many of these people are ready and willing to take their matchmaking into the metaverse, we learn from recent survey data conducted by matchmaking app and site Dating.com.

They continue to turn to technology, with a third of the participants sharing that they planned to date in the metaverse and would hug someone from another geographic region, even far away.

Emphasis on “digital privacy”

The survey noted that the use of metaverse avatars can help focus “digital communication and intimacy before in-person discovery.” Also, the metaverse is a borderless world, which may make it easier for people…