Hayeon Kim, Jinhyung Park, and In-Kwon Lee's paper ""To Be or Not to Be Me?": Exploration of Self-Similar Effects of Avatars on Social Virtual Reality Experiences" has been accepted for the journal track of the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) conference. The paper will be presented at the ISMAR 2023 conference in Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, and will be published in the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, a top-tier journal in computer graphics. The paper is the first to analyze in-depth the different experiences users have with avatars that are similar to them versus avatars that are not similar to them in a social VR environment. When using self-similar avatars, users experienced a higher sense of embodiment and social presence. On the other hand, presence, an important aspect of the VR experience, was not significantly related to the self-similarity of the avatar. Furthermore, self-similar avatars were found to decrease immersion, another important aspect of the VR experience. This could be due to increased self-awareness, which makes people more cautious of their behavior, which inhibits immersion. In addition, it was found that the voice similarity of the avatar was more important to the VR experience than the visual similarity.