"What started as a vision of delivering the most immersive real-time communication system at StayUp became grander and more achievable the minute we met the IMVU team," says StayUp Founder Gary Chevsky.
On IMVU, a customizable avatar, which represents you, can express him- or herself and interact with other avatars to create a greater sense of social presence - the feeling of being with someone else as if you're physically there. The IMVU experience, today, mentally and emotionally engages our users to experience a deeper level of social realism. Under the leadership of CEO Daren Tsui, IMVU is focused on spreading the power of friendship in ways better than what current social platforms deliver today. "With IMVU's 4 million monthly active users and 50 thousand creators, we look forward to growing the concept of social VR in our already vibrant ecosystem." "StayUp accelerates our roadmap to a cross-platform implementation of an immersive avatar-based social network," says IMVU CEO Daren Tsui.
The acquisition extends the capabilities of the IMVU platform in avatar design, shared experiences, and user-generated content with StayUp's technical advancement in bringing social immersion and virtual reality to real-time communication. Previous to StayUp, Gary was the President at Tango, a mobile messaging company with over 400 million users and a pioneer in mobile video-chat. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - IMVU, the leading avatar-based social network, today announces the acquisition of StayUp, Inc., a social VR company headed by Founder & CEO Gary Chevsky.
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