Now Your Google Assistant Can Help You Get a Date — What Could Be Next?
Dating app Plenty of Fish is first on Google Home, allowing voice communication in place of email via Google Assistant.
In the race to connect everything in people’s homes to a voice command digital assistant, Google has gone beyond managing standard home equipment like security and entertainment systems, adding an aspect of many people’s lives that is spent largely online: Dating.
With the Internet of Things and connected devices, now daters don’t have to swipe this way or that to pick their next mistake — or even type a message to make weekend date plans. Their smartphone can do it for them.
Making your home “smart” has created a multitude of opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs. But so far, the functionality has been focused on practical uses — planning one’s day by voice requesting traffic reports, skipping errands by voicing your online shopping purchases, telling your phone to dim lighting to perfect ambiance, and speaking messages into Slack for your work channel while handling housework — plus a separate raft of entertainment options, in the current selection of supported services.
