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(Alliance News) - Engage XR Holdings PLC on Monday said it developed its first artificial intelligence-powered 'virtual' employee platform called Athena.

The Waterford, Ireland-based virtual reality software and technology group said potential metaverse applications of Athena include automated customer service and virtual world building.

Athena is powered by AI chatbot ChatGPT and AI image generator DALL.E, it added.

"Named after the Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and practical reason, 'Athena' is a fully interactive virtual employee who will take voice commands and complete tasks," said Engage XR in a statement.

"AI-powered avatars open many possibilities for enterprise clients of the Metaverse, including delivery of always-on customer service and the ability to build virtual worlds using nothing other than voice commands."

For Engage Link users, it said Athena can provide advice, answer questions, source media for playback, create AI imagery, find 3D objects, create sticky notes, and interact with key functions of the platform.

"The functionality of the AI means that Athena gets smarter the more she interacts with people, improving her performance and responding more naturally to conversational prompts," Engage XR added.

It said engineers are adding functionality and connectivity to Athena over the coming weeks, utilising different AI programmes.

Chief Executive Officer David Whelan said: "Even at this very early stage of development, you can hold full conversations with Athena inside Engage. For example, you can ask her to create unique art installations which are built in real-time. She can complete tasks such as fetching 3D models, videos based on your prompts and provide full tutorials and information on almost any topic you ask her. Athena is impressive and only gets better the more we interact with her.

"Deployment of cutting-edge technology like Athena is another step in delivering our vision for Engage which is for it to become the dominant metaverse platform of choice for Fortune 500 companies.

Shares in Engage XR were up 13% to 4.80 pence each in London on Monday afternoon.

By Greg Rosenvinge, Alliance News reporter

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