Dating App Nevermet Launches in the Metaverse

Nevermet, a new dating app that operates exclusively in the metaverse, aims to help people cultivate virtual relationships instead of encouraging them to meet IRL.

Nevermet was designed specifically for VR users who are looking for a virtual dating experience. Users can create a profile with traditional dating app preferences like age and gender filters, but the big difference is no physical address is necessary because the app isn’t location-based. Instead, users add a virtual location like Rec Room, Horizon Worlds, or VRChat where they can be found. 

When the profile is complete, users can swipe through potential matches, but instead of real-life photos, they see only a VR avatar of their matches. According to Virtual Reality Times, the app is monitored to ensure people aren’t posting real photos.

Nevermet screen shots of member profiles.

Image: Nevermet

Users can decide if they want to swipe right based on an avatar’s movements, style and voice, and if they match, they can set up a date in the metaverse. Nevermet is strictly focused on keeping relationships in virtual spaces, as demonstrated by the tagline: “What happens in VR stays in VR.” In fact, the name “Nevermet” comes from online slang, referring to couples in an online relationship who haven’t met in real life.

The app was created by VR developer team Solaris Nite and Cam Mullen, the team who launched Cheerio, Couch and Somewhere among other VR apps.  

According to VR Scout, the platform offers something unique and potentially disrupting to the dating app experience – the opportunity to meet and interact in fantastical environments that would be almost impossible to create in real life. According to Nite and Mullen, you can “play ping pong, ride unicorns, and go to Paris” on your first date.

“As Tinder made it easier for people looking for a relationship to find each other in the real world, Nevermet wants to make it easier in VR and the Metaverse,” the company said in a statement. “Nevermet is focused on enabling romantic relationships in VR, but users who are looking to make friends are also welcomed.”

In fact, the company’s website offers a “manifesto” which says: “We're giving rise to a new relationship culture, where relationships in the metaverse are everything we've ever hoped for in our quest for connection. Now, people might presume the ‘real world’ is real and that VR is fake. They're wrong. The truth is. VR frees us to explore the depths of authentic expression and connection.”

The app is available for free on iOS.