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Emma Mankey Hidem

Creator and Host at The Game Show of Love and 1 other company
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Emma Mankey Hidem is an innovative storyteller and media expert with over a decade of experience, who has been on the cutting edge of media technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality. Emma started working with immersive and interactive media in 2013 and she immediately saw the promise that these new technologies held for storytelling. She founded Sunnyside VR in 2015, when virtual reality was barely a glimmer on most peoples’ horizons. Since then, she has created unique experiential media for brands such as Mercedes, Estee Lauder, Norwegian Cruise Lines, AARP and the ACLU. Emma has spoken about immersive media all over the country, most notably at festivals such as AFI Docs and SXSW. Emma was named a “woman leader in VR” by Authority Magazine in 2021 and was named “filmmaker of the month” by the DC Film Office for January 2022. Emma serves on the board of Women in Film & Video and DCXR.

In 2020, in response to the covid-19 pandemic, Emma created The Game Show of Love, an interactive virtual dating game show that grew into a community of almost 1200 people in its first season. The show recently began its third season, revamping the show as an in-person event. Through multiple seasons, having interviewed hundreds of singles and interviewing dozens of experts, Emma saw how much bad advice was out there and was inspired to become a dating & relationship coach. The Game Show of Love has been featured on many media outlets around DC, as well as on the nationally-syndicated tv show, The List. And Emma's dating advice has been included in articles in both the US and Canada!

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  • Dating coaches say they constantly hear from clients that poor spelling and grammar over text is a major turn-off. So, do yourself a favor and scan your messages before you fire them off.

    According to Hidem, one misspelled word or punctuation error could lead to confusion or cause an awkward misunderstanding (thanks, autocorrect).

    “Grammar matters in text communication because they can't hear your voice—so things like tone, pauses, and the rhythm of your words aren't available,” says Hidem. “Commas and periods go a long way to helping ensure that the person is reading your text as you meant it to sound.”

    -Askmen, Texting Rules That Guys Should Learn (https://www.askmen.com/dating/heidi/the-trouble-with-texting.html)

  • Emma Mankey Hidem, a relationship expert and creator of the interactive online dating game show "The Game Show of Love," told Newsweek: "The unfortunate fact is that, based on statistical probability, the man is likely doing almost none of the childcare—and unfortunately that would probably be the case even if the woman was working full time."

    The relationship expert said "it's very unfair" of the partner to expect the poster to contribute to the bills in this situation and leave no money for herself. "If he were a stay-at-home dad making almost no money, I'm sure he would be livid if he was expected to contribute to the bills."

    The expert said that while the user in the latest post "shouldn't have to contribute at all," there is a compromise that she often suggests to couples with disproportionate incomes.

    "You take the lower earner's income and figure out how many times more than that the higher earner is earning. In this case, the woman makes around £550, which means the man earns a little over eight times more than she does. Then you take all of your bills and divide it by nine and the woman pays 1/9th of the bills and the man pays 8/9ths.

    "That said, even 1/9th of the bills could easily eat that up so I still think the man should let it go and cover the bills since she is covering another area of their joint life on her own (the childcare). Frankly, the male partner isn't really seeing this as a partnership from the sounds of it and he is devaluing childcare," Hide added.

    -Newsweek, Mom Demanding Her Boyfriend Covers All Utility Bills Backed: 'Fair' (https://www.newsweek.com/mom-demands-partner-pay-bills-viral-mumsnet-1766026)

  • “Apple’s headset is a whopping $3,500, which is prohibitively expensive for a large portion of the world,” Emma Mankey Hidem, CEO of Sunnyside VR, a virtual-reality studio. “That said, Apple has an army of brand-loyal fans willing to spend almost any amount of money on their products, so the price point may not end up mattering so much to the company itself.”

    -Market Watch, Zuckerberg: Apple Vision Pro is ‘not the one that I want,’ doesn’t have any ‘magical solutions’ (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/zuckerberg-apple-vision-pro-is-not-the-one-that-i-want-doesnt-have-any-magical-solutions-2ffbab3f)

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