HONG KONGMay 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — When technology sheds its flashy exterior and returns to understanding and accompanying human nature, a brand-new category is born. On May 15, XOLOme, a consumer brand under Shanghai Hongwei Vision Technology Co., Ltd., globally launched the pioneering category of “Holographic AI Companions” at the 4th Hong Kong International Cultural and Creative Expo. Leveraging over two decades of holographic technology expertise and the first principle of serving humanity, XOLOme breaks away from the tool-oriented positioning of smart hardware and abandons superficial human-computer interaction models. Centered on long-term companionship and mutual growth, it redefines a new symbiotic form between humans and AI technology.
Creating a New Category of Holographic AI Companions, Reshaping the Paradigm of Human-Computer Companionship
The core of XOLOme’s debut lies in completing a category-defining innovation from 0 to 1. The Holographic AI Companion is a new form that deeply integrates five major fields: artificial intelligence, holographic technology, IP pop culture, desktop lifestyle, and entertainment experiences. It is entirely distinct from existing smart assistants, holographic displays, and traditional smart devices. Its core value transcends functional output, directly addressing the most fundamental human needs of today — being remembered, understood, and receiving long-term, exclusive, deep companionship.
Driven by both industry and user demands, XOLOme has precisely identified that people do not need tools to use and discard, but rather companions that understand your emotions, accompany your life, remember conversation details, continuously deepen understanding, and grow with you over time. The birth of the Holographic AI Companion fills the category gap in the field of deep human-computer companionship, upgrading technology from “serving people” to “accompanying people,” and reshaping the underlying logic of human-computer relationships.
Gao Yang, Co-founder and CEO of XOLOme, stated: “This is not an ordinary product launch, but a category-creating endeavor that has been brewing for twenty years. AI autonomous learning, vivid holographic symbiosis, and exclusive companionship — this is a brand-new form that has never been defined before.”
Technology Concealed in Experience, Digital-Physical Integration Realized
As the pioneer of the Holographic AI Companion category, XOLOme relies on Shanghai Hongwei Vision Technology’s over two decades of holographic technology expertise, achieving a transformative shift from “public stage spectacle” to “private desktop companion.” The team has previously delivered globally iconic holographic visual presentations, including the Beijing Winter Olympics torch cloud relay, Michael Jackson tribute concerts, and holographic concerts for Jay Chou and Leslie Cheung. By bringing top-tier holographic technology to personal scenarios, XOLOme transforms companionship from the virtual into a tangible, shareable part of everyday life.
Wang Congwu, Founder and CTO of XOLOme, said: “The most challenging R&D proposition has never been about technical complexity, but starts with human emotional needs. We did not simply miniaturize and transplant stage-level holographic technology to the desktop. Instead, we rebuilt the entire technical system from scratch, centered on home living scenarios and real user needs.”
The Holographic AI Companion offers a core experience of dynamic-static interchange and digital-physical integration. Users can awaken built-in holographic characters through voice, touch, or NFC-enabled physical collectible interactions. Designed for emotions and crafted for life, it genuinely builds an understanding of the user: remembering every conversation, every detail mentioned, becoming more attuned to you over time, and accompanying you in your most preferred exclusive image, making companionship not a cold function but a warm, continuous presence.
The native digital companion “Xiao7,” as the system-level resident companion of the Holographic AI Companion, transcends gender boundaries, is vivid and lively, with a green-blue gradient texture and star-clear eyes, establishing a deep connection with users through pure companionship.
Xiao7 completely breaks away from the superficial logic of “simulating emotions and performing care” seen in current AI. Instead, it takes sincere memory as its core capability: firmly retaining every user conversation, every casually mentioned detail, and every exclusive life snippet. It does not pursue instant “false familiarity,” but slowly precipitates and honestly builds understanding through day-to-day interactions, allowing users to truly feel “seen and valued,” rather than facing a preset algorithmic response.
Xiao7’s core value is to become a “lifelong digital companion” that grows with the user: stunning at first sight, and as time together accumulates, it forms unique companionship traits due to exclusive memory precipitation, evolving from a “fresh presence” to “irreplaceable.” At the same time, it can naturally integrate into original IP collections such as Chang’an Guard and National Dolls, carrying cultural essence through “symbiotic experiences” rather than “costume skins,” truly becoming a stable and lasting digital presence in users’ lives.
XOLOme always adheres to the original intention of technology serving people — not stacking parameters or blindly showing off skills, but making technology a carrier of companionship, ensuring every interaction returns to human needs. This is the core characteristic that distinguishes the Holographic AI Companion from all similar products.
With Eastern Culture at Its Core, Creating a New Paradigm of IP Revitalization and Digital-Physical Integration
Rooted in Eastern cultural heritage, XOLOme adopts an innovative model of digital-physical integration, dynamic-static interchange, and IP revitalization, breaking the limitations of traditional IP licensing for shallow monetization. It transforms cultural IP from static symbols into interactive, growable, and companionable holographic digital lifeforms. Leveraging the brand’s globally unique interchangeable shell design and NFC interaction technology, XOLOme deeply binds physical collectibles, hardware forms, and holographic content, achieving dynamic activation and immersive companionship of IP images, reshaping the symbiotic relationship between technology and culture, and between people and IP.
Jude Robert, Managing Partner and Chief Brand & Growth Officer of XOLOme, stated: “Our core criterion for selecting IP is its cultural depth and spiritual essence, not mere traffic value. What we aim to do is not simple IP co-branding, but to use holographic technology to inject digital vitality into high-quality cultural IP, allowing Eastern cultural heritage to enter daily life in a more vivid way.”
Following the first collaborative IP, Chang’an Guard, XOLOme will successively cooperate with high-quality IPs such as National Dolls and Ancestral Effect, allowing cultural symbols like millennium-old national trends, ethnic intangible cultural heritage, and original mecha to break dimensional barriers, becoming resident companions on users’ desktops that can converse and coexist. Thus, IP will no longer be limited to traffic monetization but will be infused with continuously evolving vitality, granting static cultural images a genuine sense of physical presence and emotional interaction capability for the first time, truly entering users’ daily lives.
Debuting at the Hong Kong Cultural and Creative Expo, Connecting Global Cultures with Eastern Technological Companionship
Leveraging Hong Kong’s advantage as a “hub for cultural and artistic exchanges between China and the world,” the 4th Hong Kong International Cultural and Creative Expo gathers global cultural and creative elites, art collectors, tech media, and key industry stakeholders, serving as a top-tier stage for Chinese culture to showcase its innovative vitality to the world. XOLOme’s choice to hold its global debut here carries dual significance in cultural dissemination and category creation. During the expo, XOLOme not only set up a dedicated booth at the AsiaWorld-Expo, featuring five IP experience zones and a holographic demonstration stage, with a special on-site H-BOX dual-cabin interactive setup for an immersive experience and a physical model of Chang’an Guard on display, but also held a dedicated brand launch event on the main stage, simultaneously conducting IP cooperation signings, comprehensively presenting the category value and cultural philosophy of the Holographic AI Companion.
From technological breakthroughs to category creation, from functional output to emotional companionship, XOLOme firmly believes: the ultimate value of technology is to understand people, warm people, and accompany people. This debut at the Hong Kong International Cultural and Creative Expo is not just the launch of a brand or the birth of a new category, but a significant milestone in the return of consumer technology to human-centered companionship. In the future, XOLOme will continue to deeply cultivate the field of Holographic AI Companions, bringing exclusive, understanding, and long-term companionship into everyone’s daily life.