Weopia is the world’s first 3D virtual world dating service, wholly devoted to bridging the gap between traditional online dating and the time-consuming and intimidating first offline date. Virtucom Inc. began development of Weopia in Spring 2008 with a team from Canada, US, Germany, India, China and South Africa.
Weopia’s purpose is to help the millions of singles and online daters to find love faster and with less risk by allowing them to meet in virtual worlds and to experience each other beyond that which text chatting allows. Weopia daters are able to develop a deeper understanding of their dating prospect’s compatibility without leaving their home. Weopia works with any dating site and allows users to screen more potential mates in less time while protecting anonymity and providing another step towards ensuring a safe real life date.
Weopia users select an avatar and meet their date in an intimate person-to-person 3D virtual world, using voice and text chat while engaging in dating activities and conversation stimulators to get a better sense of each other. Weopia is the natural evolution of online dating, allowing users to find love faster and only meet in real life, those with whom they feel very comfortable.
Researchers at Harvard and MIT have scientifically proven that virtual dating has a critical place in the online dating process, leading to better first encounters offline. Those who use virtual dating are twice as likely to have more than one date offline. And they like each other more prior to that first date.
