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VR Dating in 50 Years: Meet Sexy Robots on the Moon and Mermaid Girlfriends?

By Jenna Owsianik
September 3, 2021
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Exploring the dating scene in virtual reality will enable a lot of fantasy fulfillment.

Animation of a robot on moon surface
A screenshot from the French-Canadian TV docuseries Sexe+Techno.

Would you use virtual reality to date or meet someone new?

Currently, dating apps are changing their focus from photos to video and audio products, as more singles on Tinder opt to meet over video before going on in-person dates. Once virtual reality gear is lighter and cheaper, it’s not wild speculation to think that for many people, exploring the dating scene in a virtual world will become commonplace.

Today’s VR technology is not widely accessible or affordable. However, in 50 years’ time, granted the human race hasn’t frozen or burned to a crisp, the potential ubiquity and easy access to incredibly realistic and immersive virtual reality will likely alter how we interact with the world and other people.

Animation of a mermaid and its shadow in blue sea
A screenshot from the French Canadian TV docuseries Sexe+Techno.

These very ideas are discussed in the French-Canadian TV docuseries “Sexe+Techno” by hosts Jean-Michel Vanasse and Marilou Ethier. I acted as a sex tech consultant on the series and appear in a few of the episodes. However, I want to share the evocative dreams of how and who the hosts would date once VR technology reaches the tipping point and can experience what would otherwise be impossible

Jean-Michel said he would put on contact lenses, equipped with virtual reality technology, and meet a sexy robot on the moon for a romantic date. Marilou, on the other hand, would fulfill her dream of becoming a mermaid and swimming the ocean with her mermaid girlfriend and fish friend.

Inspired by the hosts’ imagination, a better question to ask singles rather than *would* you date in virtual reality is *who* would you date and *where* would you go?

Image sources: TV5Unis

Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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