When I high-five someone in IMVU, I feel it,' says Tsui of his earliest IMVU experiences.Īt the helm of IMVU's social experience is Lauren Bigelow, chief of product. It felt so real that I unconsciously began projecting myself onto my avatar feeling the psychological exhilaration as if in real-life. In addition to chatting, I was able to experience nonverbal cues such as gestures, proximity, and expressions. 'I vividly recall my first time sitting on a virtual sofa interacting with another avatar. Compared to real life, an avatar allows a greater ability to optimize how you present yourself in a social setting, which often makes an avatar a better communicator than you in the real world. Through gestures, movement, and interactions with others, IMVU avatars create a greater sensation of social presence - the feeling of being with someone else in a digital environment. On IMVU, your avatar, customized to your preferences, represents you. People love to interact with others in digital spaces, according to virtual reality and digital human expert Jeremy Bailenson, founder of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University. At IMVU, we are spreading the power of friendships through our product's experience to address the rising rates of loneliness in all generations.' As CEO Daren Tsui explains, 'Virtual worlds will be the next generation social platform connecting people in a way that exceeds both face-to-face connection and the curated feeds of Facebook and Instagram. That social aspect of the online experience is exactly the focus of IMVU.

IMVU envisions a world of deepening friendships through highly connective virtual shared experiences. Instead of posting past each other on Facebook or Instagram, IMVU user interactions are hyperpersonal - the experience is similar to the fidelity of face-to-face interaction, but at a heightened level, which enables users to find a meaningful connection like in the real world. Recent studies have shown that loneliness is on the rise and the lack of strong social connection is now considered a determinant of overall health and wellness. The strengthened executive team will help accelerate product innovation, support continued mobile growth, and continue to build the world's largest avatar-based social network. REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - IMVU, the leading avatar-based social network today announces that it expanded its executive team by hiring Daren Tsui as the chief executive officer (CEO), Lauren Bigelow as the chief product officer, Victor Zaud as the senior vice president of marketing, John Burris as the chief development officer, and Lomit Patel as the vice president of growth.

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