OmniDate Virtual Dating

Media’s interest in virtual dating remains strong coast to coast.

On the East coast, Jennifer Stewart of the Toronto Star (Toronto, ON) interviewed Professor Michael Norton (Harvard University), who has recently conducted research on the effectiveness of virtual dating, and Kim Hughes, a spokesperson for Lavalife which is currently adding virtual dating on its site.

“Virtual dating allows people to interact with others without hiding behind a profile,” said Professor Norton. “People want to the opportunity to meet someone online, before committing their time and money to an in-person date,” agreed Kim Hughes, “This helps people get to know each other first, before making that commitment.” (more…)

OmniDate, the developer of a plug-and-play virtual dating application for dating sites, has added a plug-in chat to its offering.

“Our aim is to provide a complete solution of communication tools to dating sites,” explains Ravit Abelman, co-founder of OmniDate, “We want to make it easier for our clients to offer a range of dating options to their users.”

“Our members love the new chat,” says Shaun Wolfe, CEO of TangoWire, an online dating network of over 3,700 websites and millions of members, “We are very pleased to see OmniDate expand their offering. We were already using the virtual dating application, and replacing our existing chat with OmniDate’s new tool allowed us to bring all communication technology under one roof.”

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Ravit Abelman, Co-founder of OmniDate, interviews Shaun Wolfe, CEO of TangoWire, about virtual dating.  Shaun shares his thoughts on virtual dating from the business perspective.

TangoWire provides OmniDate’s virtual dating to millions of its members across its vast network of 3,700 dating sites.

It’s huge!

Check out these stats assembled by Online Schools from a number of sources, including Reuters and The Washington Post.

Check out our new product website at http://corp.omnidate.com.  It explains in greater details what virtual dating is and how to get it up-and-running on your dating or social networking site.  We are trying to make it super easy for sites to plug-in our virtual dating technology … btw, the last integration took less than 2 hrs start to finish!

Please visit our new site and let us know what you think.

The NY Daily News reports that giving people too many choices can backfire. Users of online dating Web sites actually experience a “cognitive overload” and make poorer decisions as a result. The article concludes that “Yet there is hope — at least in the online dating world. A new start-up company, called OmniDate, offers users the chance to interact with 3-D avatars in a virtual world, revealing information about themselves that may only come out through conversation.”

We agree: Virtual dating addresses a big gap in the online dating process and can effectively neutralize “cognitive overload.” (more…)

Virtual dating is proving to be a highly effective tool for improving online user experience and real life success, as well as increasing user activity, time on site, etc.

As this technology continues to evolve, an interesting question arises: How “real” should virtual dating be?

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How does one compete successfully in the hyper-competitive online dating space?

A couple of books provide a valuable perspective: The future of online dating belongs to Visionaries, not Historian.

The first book, “Blue Ocean” by Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne views the world from the business strategy perspective. It uses the metaphor of red and blue oceans to describe the market universe. (more…)

Who do you think is drawn to Virtual Dating?  If you guessed “young males” - you’d be wrong.

Take a look at the demographics for OmniDate, which has developed a virtual dating application that it licenses to dating sites.  The company also maintains a small virtual dating site for the purpose of testing and refining its product.

According to Quantcast, a leading provider of internet metrics, OmniDate appeals to Women and people in the 35-49 age range.

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