- How far would go to fine
tune your dating game?
So there's a dating coach
out there who's gone so far
as to creating virtual reality dating app
to help you become the stallion
you always wanted to be.
I don't know.
Drew, you're a stallion.
(neighs)
(laughs)
(audience applause)
I'm not even sure what the term means;
but joining us via Skype
from Miami Beach, Florida
is Magic Leone, the co-creator
behind the one virtual reality dating app.
How does this work?
I'm curious.
- Basically, you put on your glasses
and the minute you do that,
you step into a virtual world
and there are a set of lessons,
demonstrations and exercises that you use
so next time you go out,
you know exactly how to approach a woman
and generate an attraction, successfully.
- So, a video game of sorts.
- Correct.
- Walk us through a scenario
because I'm curious.
There's obviously a fine line
in terms of the types
of behaviors and things,
getting physical in this
virtual reality world.
How does it work?
- How it goes is that it
goes from handshaking,
when it comes to touching,
to at the most kissing;
but what we're teaching is
to gauge a woman's response
and then take the next actions.
For example, a handshake.
You know a guy could go out,
a guy can come in and
just offer you a finger,
and say, "Hey, my name's Magic,"
and that's when the girl thinks.
So we can teach them the proper way of
introducing yourself,
hold your hand gently,
warmly, make eye contact,
have a good smile.
If she likes you when she's
perhaps coming close to you,
going the next level,
then you can maybe get
a little more close, touch her hair.
Again reciprocate, if she's liking it,
then you can go for it.
To think that we teach
them the progression
based on the feedback from women.
- And I believe it's just
a little bit of controversy
as well because at least
in the first version
of this app, the women
were called targets.
Is that correct?
- Yes, and that was an innocent mistake.
And the reason it was was
in the video game world,
you use words like target
because the gamers understand that.
And we didn't recognize it at the time,
that this could be a problem.
The minute we recognized
that, we changed it
but that was a really innocent mistake.
- Well, Magic, thank you so
much for sharing with us.
We really appreciate it.
(audience applause)
- Once again, I think we're
targeting younger people
who love the video games.
- But again, going back to, not to harp on
the adolescents and the teenagers,
but I'm thinking about my son.
He's still only seven
but when he's a teenager,
I don't know how comfortable I feel .
- I don't feel comfortable at all.
My daughter, a medical student from UCLA,
is in her 20s, she dates, and
I don't wanna think of her as a target.
- Right.
Exactly, I have an issue with that.
You know, unless it's reciprocal
and then I also could go after my target.
- Adolescents are learning
how to date through
alcohol induced television,
virtual reality dating apps.
It's a little bit of a scary time because
if you had to do, for me,
if you have to use a virtual reality app
to learn how to communicate
with a member of the opposite sex.
That's not ideal.
That's the whole idea of
interacting with one another
in real life and
hopefully, you have friends
and others who you can
have conversations with.
- Unfortunately, those days are over.
Everybody meets on the internet.
- There is something to be
said for actual interaction
and learning how to engage
with people in person
and the whole idea of learning
and modeling your behavior
on reality TV or on apps
and not actually going out
and socializing, I think is
a little bit troublesome.
Certainly, as a mom, this
sort of freaks me out.
What are these kids turning into?
- I would be, if I'm
a child or adolescent,
and I use one of these
virtual reality apps,
I would be so nervous when
the real thing came to be
because life is not an app.
Life is not do anything, be happy.
- That's not like the game,
I must've touched the wrong spot.
Oh no.
Not where I wanna go.
- Oh no, I didn't mean to touch.
- I'm sorry, can I start over again?
(makes buzzer sound)
- Game over.
- [Sonia] That's the problem.
- It seems a bit robotic but hey,
whatever you needed to do.
