Hong Kong based Artificial Life today announced the official release of V-Girl Version 1.0 -- your virtual girlfriend.

The V-Girl Version 1.0 has several outstanding and unique product features: it uses artificial intelligence, text to speech, real time chat, sophisticated user profiling and user specific content delivery, high quality 3-D animations and graphics, context sensitive functions and menu icons, over 3000 different video and audio streams, build in user contests, games-in-game functions and offers intelligent, interactive product placement opportunities for sponsors and advertisers.

The Company announced that it has received several offers from major mobile operators from several countries to launch the product on their 2.75G and/or 3G networks and is in the final stages of negotiations for the scheduling of the global roll-out with these operators in the fourth quarter 2004 und the first quarter of 2005.

The Company also announced that it will soon launch a dedicated website for V-Girl to provide V-Girl related news, downloads, merchandising and user group information.

The new product will be presented to the public and the global media during a speech of the Company's Chairman and CEO E.Schoeneburg titled: "Intelligent Agents and Smart Bots -- killer applications for 3G" on November 18, 2004 at the 3G World Congress & Exhibition 2004 in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

"This is a major milestone for us. We are preparing to go live with several operators in several countries. It's an exciting moment in our corporate history and development. I am especially thankful to all our employees who have worked hard in the last year to get this done." said Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.