AI Character Pod Dipal D1 Puts Custom VRM Models on Your Desk
The Dipal D1 treats AI conversation as a desktop presence rather than an app session, and its acceptance of user-loaded models makes customization the core of the product instead of an add-on.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Shanghai-based Dipal showed the Dipal D1, a cylindrical desktop pod with an 8-inch 2.5K curved OLED display, at ChinaJoy 2026. It runs an 8-core 7nm SoC, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, and a battery, handling real-time conversation with Japanese support and reading gestures through a camera. Users can load their own VRM, FBX, GLTF, and 2D models. The price is around 160,000 yen.
The demo unit ran fully on-device because the venue had no network, and it still held a conversation, tracked gestures, and kept eye contact as the reporter moved. It also held a name: told "I am Takashi," it remembered "Takahashi." Conversation memory lasts about a month before fading, like a human's.
Dipal sells actions and backgrounds, not the models users bring in, and is considering a system that pays creators when the official side adopts their work. A Unity SDK is planned.
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