Worlize Debuts Animation Engine For Social Chat Platform

Online, January 8, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Worlize (https://www.worlize.com), the social chat platform that puts user creativity first, announced today its newest feature: rich animation. With this first release of the new Worlize Animation Engine, users can now upload any animated GIF file as their avatar or as room objects to enhance their world. With the added feature, Worlize provides its audience with the ability to create their own experiences exactly how they imagined: animated.

"Whether it's chat or gaming, people are veering away from one-dimensional quick-engagement games and heading toward platforms that enable them to truly interact with their friends in new and meaningful ways," said CEO Brian McKelvey. "Adding animation to Worlize is just the first step to enabling rich animated content that will eventually include embedded Flash animation and ultimately, a programming API that will enable interactive multiplayer gaming and other real-time social opportunities."

Worlize is a chat platform that simultaneously presents its users with beautiful customizable worlds, the ability to seamlessly share and engage with content, participate with others in fun and meaningful ways, and much more:

• Entertainment: Users can chat via text-based comic balloons or with their webcams while simultaneously listening to music, sharing photos and watching videos together in real time.
• Socially Connected: One doesn't have to look further than the billion dollar social-gaming industry within Facebook to understand how users connect with their friends. Worlize knows this and is intrinsically connected to Facebook and Twitter.
• True Customization: Individuals are designing their own worlds, choosing room backgrounds, whether abstract, a forest or a just a photo of their room. They can also create their own animated avatars, which could be a picture of themselves, a fairy princess, a football player or a Star Wars character; it's limited only by the user's imagination.
• Virtual Gatherings: Families can make a world by uploading a photo of their living room and chat and share home movies or other videos in real time with each other via the built-in YouTube player.

Worlize breaks down the walls of existing social games and virtual worlds, providing average users with the ability to create their own experiences on their own terms.

For more information, please go to:
• Site: http://www.worlize.com
• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/worlize
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Worlize

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About Worlize
Worlize, founded in 2010, is the disruptive social chat and interaction platform that brings together social connectivity and user creativity. Worlize breaks down the walls of existing social games and virtual worlds, providing average users with the ability to create their own experiences. Intrinsically connected to Facebook and Twitter, Worlize joins personal expression with interactivity to deliver a wholly unique experience. Worlize, Inc. is based in Los Angeles, CA.

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