Level Up Your Virtual Valentine's Day Date with Dating.com's New Virtual Spaces

Digital intimacy just got a 21st-century update with private, customizable rooms and personalized avatars.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for Valentine's Day, Dating.com, a global social entertainment platform, launched Virtual Spaces. The new feature allows singles worldwide to meet their matches in personalized, beautifully designed virtual rooms, creating a unique and immersive environment for their interactions.

Virtual Spaces allows matches to meet in a virtual room via digital personas, created based on the user's gender and profile photo to add a personal and interactive element to the experience. The 3D digital personas closely resemble the user in real life, and reflect their mood in real time based on interactions. Additionally, users can customize and change their personas' clothing and style.

To further customize the experience, users can choose from different room styles and decorate their space with a variety of furniture options that can be changed at any time, and send gifts or outfits to their match's avatar.

A recent study revealed that the top three reasons users aspire for virtual intimacy are affordability (65%), companionship (57%) and escapism (32%). All three are enhanced with this newest innovation, as Virtual Spaces is free for any registered user, a completely private and safe space for couples and highly customizable based on the user's taste.

To ensure a safe and intimate environment, each Virtual Space is exclusively accessible to the two individuals who initiated the interaction. Matches are able to continue chatting and be their most authentic selves in the full privacy of their Virtual Space that can evolve and grow with the relationship.

"When people can connect in a space free from physical, financial, and geographic limitations, they have the freedom to be fully themselves. This kind of environment encourages deeper, more authentic connections, where people feel safe to open up and engage in meaningful conversations," said Sabrina Bendory, relationship expert at Dating.com. " In many cases, these virtual interactions allow for a level of emotional intimacy that can be even stronger than what we typically experience in traditional dating settings."

Additional data from a 2025 report on Virtual Intimacy found:

• 71% of users said virtual messaging alone has decreased their feelings of loneliness.
  • 83% of respondents have virtually dated someone who is based in another state
• 71% have been in a digital relationship with someone who lives in another country.
• 62% feel more comfortable expressing sexual desires to a virtual match.

Social Discovery Group, the company behind 60+ online communication apps, including Dating.com, aims to solve the problem of loneliness and isolation through virtual intimacy. Social Discovery Group is committed to continuously evolving and enhancing the user experience, with the ultimate vision of creating a virtual meeting place where two people can connect in a deeper and more meaningful way.

For more information and to meet your next match, visit www.Dating.com.

About Dating.com
Dating.com is a global social entertainment platform dedicated to connecting people online. Its virtual space is exclusively designed to empower users to create and exchange content, ideas, interests, and various forms of expression through virtual connections, live video performances, and other digital interactions. For more information, please visit www.Dating.com.

SOURCE Dating.com