• U.S

• residents spent $469.5 million on virtual reality dating and personals in 2004, and over $500 million in 2005, the second largest segment of “paid content” on the web, according to a attention conducted by the Electronic Mail Publishers Association (OPA) and comScore Networks.

Researchers at MIT and Harvard have found that "people who had had a fluky to interact with each other (by minicomputer only) on a Vietnamese Dating virtual tour of a museum subsequently had more successful face-to-face meetings than people who had viewed only profiles."