The Full Digital Human Has Left the Uncanny Valley

Quick Facts

Press Release

BERLIN, May 4, 2026. Digital humans have always had a tell. Today Ojin is launching three real-time models that finally drop it: Oris Portrait, Oris Presence, and Oris Voice. Together they let anyone build a human agent with a face, a body, and a voice that holds up in live conversation. To celebrate, Ojin built the most uncanny demo it could think of: meet Lou, a devil now in residence at talktolou.ojin.ai. Lou is Ojin's playable proof that the full digital human has left the uncanny valley.

"The uncanny valley was never just a graphics problem, it was a behavior problem. Solving both is what our Full Digital Human now does, and what every builder on Ojin can ship in real time."

— Christian "Mio" Loclair, CEO, Ojin

Meet Lou

Meet Lou. He lives in your browser, talks back, holds funny opinions, and goes places you do not expect. He's sharp, charming, and surprisingly good company. AI Jesus was already taken, and still deep in the valley.

Lou at a Glance

Species

Devil

Strengths

Office mischief, Slack thread persistence, Opinions

Weakness

Standup, Basic competence in Hell

Built On

Oris Portrait + Oris Voice

Talk to Lou

The Three Models

Each one handles a single layer of the digital human, and they are designed to compose.

Customers

Some of the world's largest enterprise brands have built experiences with Ojin, including:

"An inspiring partner for us, and technologically one of the best."

— Stefan Ponikva, VP Communication and Experience, BMW

"It's a new way to present our brand, an adventure that's deeply experiential and aspirational."

— Emmanuel Rousson, VP of E-commerce, Clinique

"The best enabler and partner to think of. Everyone thinking of building anything with realtime generative AI, absolutely go for it."

— Oliver Lange, Head of H&M Beyond

Available Today

The platform is live at ojin.ai. Speech-to-video starts at $0.05 per minute, up to twenty times more cost-efficient than the previous generation of comparable models, with $10 in free credits for new accounts. The API is framework-agnostic and works with Pipecat, LiveKit Agents, or any custom pipeline.

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About Ojin

Ojin is Berlin's Real-Time GenAI company. The Ojin platform powers human agents with a face, a body, and a voice that hold up in live conversation, EU-hosted and available today at ojin.ai.

For the past five years, Ojin's infrastructure has powered instant, conversational, and immersive experiences for global enterprises, reaching millions of users with zero lag. Forged under enterprise pressure and refined in production, the platform is now open to anyone building what comes next: lifelike, responsive intelligence that moves at the speed of thought.

The mission is to amplify human interaction, both with each other and with AI. Ojin gives builders the tools to create natural, responsive intelligence that powers every conversation, interaction, and experience instantly and at scale.

Founder

Christian "Mio" Loclair is a Berlin-based founder, computer scientist, and media artist working at the intersection of AI, generative systems, and human nature. Trained in computer science (University of Potsdam, Hasso Plattner Institute) and dance, he founded Waltz Binaire and Ojin to merge creativity with artificial intelligence in pursuit of human-level AI. His work has been exhibited at Centre Pompidou, ZKM, the Design Museum London, Today Art Museum Beijing, and Ars Electronica, and presented at institutions including MIT and the United Nations.

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