Kim Kardashian is touting her new Kimojis, powered by IMVU's tech.
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IMVU’s social avatar powers Kim Kardashian West’s new Kimoji app

IMVU, the social network with 3D animated avatars, said that it has provided the technology behind a new version of the popular Kimoji paid app created by Kim Kardashian West.

Redwood City, Calif.-based IMVU operates a social network where users can create their own animated spaces. It created a proprietary Server Side Rendering (SSR) technology that powers its avatars, and that same technology is behind the latest release of the Kimoji app.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.